Human rights lawyer,
Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has pleaded with Nigerians and those in authority,
not to accord Ibrahim Magu, the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the same shameless media trial as he (Magu)
did with most public officers accused of corruption.
The Senior Advocate
of Nigeria also said that the former EFCC boss be presumed innocent until he
has been subjected to the due process of law, through a free and fair public
trial.
“The fact that he
did it to others did not and does not mean it was right. Two wrongs can never
make a right.
“As I argued again
and again, like a broken record, the anti-corruption ‘war ‘ was never a
regenerative and ethics-defining Risorgimento war.
“It was purely a
score -settler against rights activists, the opposition, public critics, plural
voices and dissenters.”
Magu was suspended on Tuesday as Acting Chairman of the EFCC by President
Muhammadu Buhari after he spent the night in a police cell at the Force
Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Headquarters in Abuja.
This followed a
six-hour grilling by a presidential panel, chaired by Justice Ayo Salami, a
former president of the Court of Appeal.
Recall that on Monday that Magu was arrested by the Department of State Services
(DSS).
He was said to have
been arrested over allegations that he owns four properties and also allegedly
transferred funds abroad through a third party.
In 2016, DSS accused
him of living in a N40m mansion paid for by one Umar Mohammed, a retired
military officer.
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