Suspended EFCC Boss, Magu Shuns Police Cell, Sleeps In Mosque

As per a report by Vanguard, the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, who is at present confronting preliminary before the Presidential Investigation Panel over charges of defilement leveled against him has supposedly evaded the cell of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, FCID and turned the mosque in the premises of the police central station as his homestead where he has gone through his fourth night. 

As he set out on an incredible skirmish, the police supervisory crew was said to have relinquished him to his destiny to convey his own cross after his refusal to relate to the police progressive system while his rule as the commission's manager endured. 

Data from the FCID, yesterday, uncovered that Magu currently goes through his night inside a mosque at Zone 10 office of FCID, Abuja where he was requested to be confined pending the result of his preliminary. 

Sources hinted Saturday Vanguard that however he should be kept inside the phone at the Zone 10 office of FCID, Abuja, he typically goes through hours behind the counter before the phone and subsequent to showing up at presidential board headed by the previous President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, he would be brought back and later taken to the mosque 12 PM where he left the behind till Thursday. 

In spite of the fact that it was unrealistic to learn whether he dozed on a bed or on the ground, sources said his family members more likely than not been making arrangement for him to rest serenely inside the mosque on a unique arraignment with the police. It was accumulated that FCID, Zone 10, has been all around invigorated since Magu was confined there and additional endeavors have been made to investigate the two officials and men working there including guests. Be that as it may, sources said there was a mandate that no guest ought to be permitted to enter the premises of the office in the night. 

Besides, it was assembled that the police supervisory group met early yesterday and took broad choices over Magus' preliminary. Police sources said the supervisory group concluded that the troubled Commissioner of Police ought to be made to convey his cross dependent on the way that while he was managing EFCC, he intentionally neglected to regard senior cops and never went to senior officials gatherings led by the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Adamu Muhammed. The IGP allegedly called the gathering with the Force Chief Legal Officer, CP Augstine Salomi in participation where the choice was taken. 

President Muhammadu Buhari, has apparently cautioned serving Ministers, Senior Police Officers and top government authorities not to be seen offering any help over the case. It was additionally accumulated that the Presidential board has given the executives and ranking staff of EFCC seven days to think of all documents containing cases took care of under Ibrahim Magu from 2018 till date. 

Last Tuesday, agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) and uproar cops raged Mr Magu's private home in Karu and his official living arrangement in Maitama in Abuja which they scoured. 

Magu was captured on Monday and taken before the presidential board where he was flame broiled for more than six hours before being taken to the FCID home office in Area 10, Garki, Abuja where he resigns to after day by day cross examination at the board. 

The board was established by President Buhari to explore charges of defilement leveled against him by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. The reminder by Malami supposedly blamed Magu for redirection of recuperated plunder and contained 22 claims. 

As indicated by sources, endeavors were being made to locate a decent swap for Ibrahim Magu. Numerous names including serving and resigned top cops and even regular people had been promoted. Sources said the vast majority of the names being bandied in the previous barely any days truly sprung up for thought yet the administration dismissed them with a vow not to commit the error made over Magu. 

The name of a resigned top official from the north in the Department of Security Services, DSS, was apparently penciled somewhere near the Presidency be that as it may, sources near the administration said the name of a resigned police Commissioner from Benue state who once headed FCID, Abuja, Special Anti-burglary Squad, SARS, Lagos in their initial days and so forth was earnestly getting looked at dependent on his flawless records and accomplishments recorded in wrongdoing battling and examinations while in administration. 

The Commissioner of Police, Saturday Vanguard learned, was credited with effectively completing a crusade against debasement as a Commissioner of Police in Anambra State. He apparently took his men with notices walking in the city and reprimanding debasement with the end goal of depicting the Nigeria Police Force in the correct light. He likewise broke numerous other prominent cases while serving in Lagos including the disastrous story of Nigeria Airways first pilot, Captain Hadiza Lantana Oboh who was ruthlessly slaughtered on eighth February, 1998 and her body dumped inside a septic tank by her household hirelings. As last time anyone checked, names of many top serving and resigned cops including those of their sister security organizations that were submitted, have been dropped. 

In the interim, as all these were going on, the administration yesterday reported that President Muhammadu Buhari has affirmed the prompt suspension of Ibrahim Magu as Acting Chairman of the EFCC. As per the administration, the suspension was so as to take into consideration unhindered request by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and Other important laws. 

The administration said President Buhari has additionally endorsed that the EFCC Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar should assume responsibility and supervise the exercises of the Commission pending the finish of the continuous examination and further orders in that respects. 

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami expressed this yesterday in an announcement by his representative, Umar Gwandu. 

The announcement read to a limited extent: "President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the quick suspension of Ibrahim Magu as Ag. Administrator, EFCC so as to take into account unhindered request by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other applicable laws. 

"President Muhammadu Buhari has likewise endorsed that the EFCC Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar should assume responsibility and administer the exercises of the Commission pending the finish of the continuous examination and further orders in that respects".