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| Mr. Ibrahim Magu, Chairmen, EFCC |
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By Toye Faleye
The
Socio-Economic Right Accountability Project (SERAP) and African Bar Association
(ABA) have expressed divergent views over non-confirmation of the Acting
Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mr Ibrahim Magu.
According
to the Executive Director of SERAP, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni: “That the Senate
refused to confirm Magu’s appointment as the substantive chairman of EFCC does
not mean he cannot continue in his acting capacity as the chairman of the
commission,” adding that the Senate saying Magu had failed the integrity test
was political.
But
according to the President of the African Bar Association, Mr Hannabal Nwafor,
Nigeria should move forward if the Senate would not confirm Magu. He says there
are many qualified Nigerians who could handle the position well than him. He says
the President should move ahead and choose another person of integrity.
For
the umpteenth time, the Senate of the Federal Republic had rejected the
nomination of Magu, the latest being when he was said not to possess the
integrity required of the coveted position.
The
Senate capitalised on the damning report by the State Security Service (SSS)
that Magu lacks the integrity to lead the country’s anti-corruption agency.
Magu
was rejected Wednesday last week after the appearance before the Senate for his
confirmation hearing when Dino Melaye raised the SSS report dated March 14.
Magu’s
undoing was said to be his inability to answer some questions from the senior
lawmakers. Some questions that were said to have baffled him bothered on why
Magu was prosecuting people on the pages of newspapers, why nobody in the
Central Bank, who released fund to former Security Adviser to former President
Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, was not prosecuted, and the failure to
expantiate on his activities on human rights and findings and activities of the
EFCC on the Paris Club.
It
will be recalled that the SSS had earlier submitted two contradictory reports
on Magu, one approving his confirmation and the other asking that he be
rejected.
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