Some officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) have received letters of suspension.
Although details of those suspended are yet to be made
public, TheCable reports that Olanipekun Olukoyede, secretary to the commission,
is among those who received the letters.
The development is not unconnected to the ongoing probe of
Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the EFCC.
Magu was arrested on July 6 and whisked to the presidential
villa in Abuja, where he appeared before a panel set up by President Muhammadu
Buhari to probe the operations of the EFCC under him.
The panel is headed by Ayo Salami, retired president of the
appeal court.
On July 14, Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the
federation (AGF), sent a letter to Mohammed Umar, acting EFCC chairman,
notifying him of the suspension of 12 directors in the commission.
TheCable also reports that some of the directors affected by
the action have been involved in investigating Malami.
Magu through his lawyer Wahab Shittu has issued a statement
thanking the probe panel for facilitating his release from custody.
“Our client wishes to place on record his appreciation to
the chairman and members of the panel for ordering his release from custody on
the 15th day of July 2020 without any conditionalities,” Shittu said.
“Our client appreciates this gesture given the fact that the
panel has repeatedly stated that it did not order the detention of our client
in the first place. Our client is grateful to the panel for the gesture.
Shittu also drew the panel’s attention to media reports
which he claims are false and prejudicial to the proceedings of the panel.
“We state for the records that we are not in a position to
query the honourable panel and certainly will never set out doing so,” he said
“Rather our intention was to draw the attention of the
honourable panel to persistent falsehood publications concerning our client
being orchestrated consistently in the public space in a manner that could
prejudice the proceedings of this honourable panel.
“We apologize if any contrary interpretation of our
intention is conveyed by the context in which the questions were raised in the
referred letter. We hold the panel in the highest esteem.
He gave assurance that Magu has undertaken to offer his full
cooperation with the panel in the discharge of its assignment.
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