Update On Magu: How He Was Accosted On Way To FHQ

By Akinwale Kasali

Contrary to the news making the rounds, the Directorate of State Services, DSS, says it did not arrest the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, CP Ibrahim Magu.

The news of Magu’s arrest, by the DSS , had spread like wild fire Monday afternoon.

But in a terse statement, signed on behalf of the Service by its Spokesperson, Dr Peter Afunanya, it said Magu was not arrested.

The Statement,entitled,

MAGU, NOT ARRESTED BY DSS, reads:

“The Department of State Services (DSS) wishes to inform the public that it did not arrest Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as has been reported by sections of the media.

“The Service, has since, today, 6th July, 2020, been inundated with enquiries over the alleged arrest.”

This magazine, however, gathered that Magu was blocked and accosted as soon as he drove out of his office, on his way to the Force Headquarters for a meeting, by Security personnel who asked him to follow them to the Villa.

When he told them he was on his way to the FHQ for a meeting, they told him that the place  they were taking him to was more important than his meeting at the FHQ.

He was taken to the Villa where he is facing a Presidential Probe Panel

It is not public, yet, why the invitation was extended to him, but a couple of weeks ago, the Attorney General and Minister for Jusice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, had written a stinging letter against Magu to the President, alleging a number of misdeeds.