The presidential panel probing
Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), has recommended his sack.
In its interim report submitted
on Wednesday, the panel headed, by Ayo Salami, retired president of the court
of appeal, also recommended that Magu should be prosecuted over allegations of
corruption and abuse of office.
Magu is also accused of violating
the code of conduct law by allegedly failing to declare all his assets when he
assumed office in 2015.
TheCable reportss that the
panel also recommended the appointment of a new chairman for the anti-graft
agency “withot further delay”.
In a letter dated July 3, 2020,
President Muhammadu Buhari had directed the panel to submit its “interim
reports to me from time to time”.
Mohammed Umar, former director of
operations at the EFCC, has been in charge of the commission in acting capacity
since July 6 when Magu was whisked before the panel by a combined team of
Department of State Services (DSS) and officers from the Force Criminal
Investigation Department (FCID) of the police in Abuja.
He was detained area 10 of the
FCT police command for nine days before being granted bail.
The travails of Magu, a
commissioner of police, followed a memo by Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of
the federation, who accused him of “grave malfeasance”.
He was alleged to have mishandled
the recovered loot and sold seized assets to his associates.
Magu was also alleged to have
purchased a property in Dubai, United Arab Emirates using a pastor as a
conduit.
He has since denied all the
allegations which he described as “nonsense”, once saying: “what I am going
through is a case of dog eats dog”.
The former acting chairman of
EFCC has also accused the panel of not giving him fair hearing.
Through Wahab Shittu, his
counsel, Magu has written several letters to the panel, demanding to be served
a copy of the charges against him in order to prepare for defence.
Buhari had appointed him in 2015
but the senate declined to confirm his appointment, citing a DSS report which
indicted him of corruption — although Magus denied any wrongdoing.
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