The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has been removed from office. Magu has
been redeployment back to the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) was to pave way
for a fresh person to be presented by President Muhammadu Buhari as the nominee
to head the anti-graft agency before the Senate.
According to the Guardian report, the redeployment was made
to look like a routine exercise, with some senior Police officers also
being re-deployed by the Police hierarchy to resume as conventional Police
officers.
It was gathered that
the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar
Malami, has already issued a letter to Magu on the development and directed
that he hands over to the Director of Operations in the Commission.
Magu’s nomination was recently rejected by the Senate
following allegation of graft leveled against him by the Department of State
Security Service (DSS).
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