By Ayo Kehinde
Suspended EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu
President Muhammadu Buhari has acceded to the report of the Presidential Investigation panel that Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu be suspended from office.
The panel headed by former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami is said to have found Magu culpable of the allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Malam Abubakar Malami and the Directorate of State Services, DSS.
Magu was on Monday arrested by a combined team of Department of State Services, DSS, personnel and policemen at the Wuse II office of the EFCC to face an interagency committee investigating corruption allegations against him.
He spent a night in detention at the FCID in Area 10, Abuja, on Monday night on the orders of the Salami committee that also questioned him on Tuesday morning
Some of the allegations were listed as:
•Alleged discrepancies in the reconciliation records of the EFCC and the Federal Ministry of Finance on recovered funds
•Declaration of N539b as recovered funds instead of N504b earlier claimed
•Insubordination to the Office of the AGF
•Not providing enough evidences for the extradition of Diezani Alison-Madueke
•Alleged late action on the investigation of P&ID leading to legal dispute
•Not respecting court order to unfreeze a N7b judgment in favour of a former executive director of a bank
•Alleged delay in acting on two vessels seized by Navy
•Alleged favouring of some investigators called Magu Boys
•Reporting some judges to their presiding officers without deferring to the AGF
•Alleged sale of seized assets to cronies, associates and friends
•Alleged issuance of investigative activities to some media prejudicial to some cases
