Magu: “Allegations Against Me Are Nonsense; It Is A Case Of Dog Eats Dog” | The Source Magazine

By Charles Igbo

Suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, CP Ibrahim Magu, has dismissed the allegations against him as “nonsense”.

He said the charges against him were trumped-up, meant to tarnish his image and that of the EFCC.

The Nation Newspaper qoutes Magu, as soon as he was released from a 10-day detention, as saying of his experience:

“What I have gone through is a case of dog eats dog, but I see it as one of those risks of the job. But we must not give up in anyway”

Asked about the allegations against him, he was quoted as saying: “They are nonsense. They are mere trump up charges to tarnish my image and that of the EFCC. I did not steal, or divert, or convert recovered funds to private use. I read the allegations, and I was shocked.”

He maintained that the war against corruption was not personal.

Magu: “It is not a personal fight. Whether I am EFCC Chairman or not, the anti corruption war must continue.”

Thanking Nigerians who stood by him, he asked them not to give up. “They should not give up on the fight because corruption kills a nation faster than any other thing.”

Earlier, on a Channels Television programme,  Politics Today, his Counsel, Tosin Ojaomo, said the things that had been published in the media against Magu were fabrications.

For instance, he said when his house was searched, nothing was found, but that publications were to the effect that huge sums of money and wrist watches were found.

He, also, picked holes in the stories, allegedly  from the Panel, saying that none of the published snippets from there was true.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has, reportedly, ordered the Presidential Panel to suspend 12 Directors of the Commission, including the Secretary.

It is not yet confirmed if the Director of Operations, who was appointed to act in Magu’s stead, was affected by the suspension order.