Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi
Falana (SAN), has denied receiving N28m from the suspended Acting Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, who is being
investigated for corruption allegations by a special presidential panel.
Falana, in a pre-action letter
signed by his lawyer, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN), demanded a retraction of
the claim by a newspaper which published the online story.
The newspaper’s story was based
on a report published by the Federal
Government-owned News Agency of Nigeria, which claimed to have obtained the
final report of a prior presidential panel allegedly indicting Magu for being
unable to account for the interest generated from N550bn cash recovered from
2015 to 2020.
According to NAN, the said
presidential panel’s report titled, ‘Final Report of the Presidential
Investigation Committee on the EFCC Federal Government Recovered Assets and
Finances from May 2015 to May 2020’ exposed acts of corruption and money
laundering against some EFCC officials, including Magu.
Falana’s lawyer stated in his
letter demanding the retraction of the NAN’s story as published by the
Lagos-based newspaper within 48 hours, the story was “damning against my client
because his entire career as a lawyer has been devoted to fighting human rights
abuses and corruption in high and low place”.
Olumide-Fusika stated, “In the
circumstance, my immediate instruction is to demand that you acknowledge your
wrongdoing, expressly admit that what you imputed against my client was false,
and apologise for your unprofessionalism and the damage you have caused to him.
“I do hope that you will, within
the next 48 hours, comply with this gentlemanly request by publication on the
front page of your newspaper. Failing compliance, my instruction is to issue a
Writ in the tort of defamation in other to afford you an opportunity to prove
what you imputed against his my client’s character.”
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