JUST IN: EFCC boss, Magu suspended
NEWS DIGEST – Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, reports BBC.
However, the media aide of the anti-graft boss, Tony Amokedo, told the Daily Trust that he is not aware of the suspension of Magu.
Magu spent last night in police cell at the Force Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters in Area 10, Garki, Abuja, after he was quizzed on Monday for about six hours by a Presidential panel, chaired by a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami. It was gathered that Magu was detained at the FCID after the panel grilled him.
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The panel was constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to probe various allegations levelled against Magu following a petition by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and the Department of State Service (DSS).
Malami’s memo allegedly accused Magu of diversion of recovered loot.
The memo was said to contain 22 allegations against the embattled EFCC chairman.
But Malami through his spokesman, Dr Umar Gwandu, said he had no knowledge of Magu’s arrest.
“You are just informing me now,” Gwandu said when told that Malami had reportedly written a memo in June, 2020, which indicted Magu.
“I am also not aware of any memo written to the president on the EFCC chairman,” he said.
