NFIU Office Burgled In Aso Rock, Computers And Other Items Taken Away – Politics

Five days after he was unceremoniously expelled from office like his forerunners, President Muhammadu Buhari has clarified why he requested the suspension of the troubled acting executive of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Mustafa Magu. 

This is coming at the time the NFIU office in Aso Rock Presidential Villa was burgled and at any rate seven PCs containing delicate budgetary data were removed and others seriously harmed. 

The assault accepted to have occurred without any forethought was found Friday morning at the No 12 Ibrahim Taiwo Street, Aso Villa office of the NFIU. 

The clarification, which is the main authority response on the capture and detainment of Magu in a police cell since Monday is contained in an announcement gave by Umar Gwandu, the representative to Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Friday. 

The AGF said the suspension was so as to take into consideration unhindered request by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other significant laws. Mr Magu is being tested by a presidential board researching asserted debasement and rebellion against him. The charges were recorded against him in a notice to President Buhari by Mr Malami, a month ago. 

He blamed Mr Magu for resistance and re-plundering of recouped assets and resources. 

Mr Magu was therefore suspended from office on Tuesday, is as yet being kept while the board exploring claims against him despite everything sits. There has anyway not been any official articulation on the improvement since Monday. 

The announcement gave by Malami's media associate yesterday peruses to some extent: "President Muhammadu Buhari has affirmed the prompt suspension of Ibrahim Magu as Ag. Executive of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) so as to take into account unhindered request by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other important laws." 

As indicated by the announcement, "President Muhammadu Buhari has additionally affirmed that the EFCC Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar, should assume responsibility and regulate the exercises of the Commission pending the finish of the progressing examination and further mandates in that regard(s)". 

In a new curve to the turn of events, Saturday Sun assembled that the workplace of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), a body answerable for lodging delicate data about money related exchanges in the nation has been burgled and at any rate seven PCs containing imperative information were expelled and removed. An authority of the office who affirmed the turn of events in any case, guaranteed that the information on the taken PCs could in any case be retrived from hard circles. He likewise expressed that different PCs deserted by the criminals were harmed with the end goal of crushing the data on them. It was likewise accumulated that the criminals numbering around six were anyway caught on CCTV camera in the workplace. It was additionally discovered that versatile cops on the job in the workplace were captured yesterday for cross examination. Some NFIU authorities had on Thursday showed up before the Justice Salami board researching Magu to affirm. A portion of the board individuals were anyway planned to visit the NFIU office on Friday morning yet before they showed up the workplace was burgled for the time being and delicate information on development of assets trucked away. 

source:- Sunnewsonline