Charity Nnaji
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Ibrahim Magu has been drilled for hours by the three-man committee
set up by President Muhammadu Buhari and headed by the Vice President, Yemi
Osinbajo.
Buhari set up the committee to investigate the
suspended secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and
the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador
Ayo Oke.
Other than Osinbajo, the committee has the
Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the National Security
Adviser, Babagana Monguno, as members.
Magu, who appeared before the committee members on
Friday was queried for hours at the Vice-President’s office inside the
Presidential Villa, Abuja. Magu was questioned on the fund recovered in a Lagos
apartment which the NIA DG had claimed belonged to the agency.
Magu was said to have justified the raid on the
Ikoyi apartment where the money was recovered and briefed the committee on the
investigation into the operation, Punch reports.
The report quoted a source as saying, “The meeting
with Magu was part of the assignment of the committee. He was asked questions
on the operation and as expected he justified it.”
Recall that the anti-graft agency had recently uncovered
huge cash in both foreign and local currencies in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos
State.
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