Magu’s Travail Continues As He Spends 4th Night In Detention

It’s a tale of four days and four nights for the troubled chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.

The now suspended helmsman of Nigeria’s foremost anti-graft agency spent his fourth night in detention on Thursday.

Magu was arrested on Monday and has been incarcerated since then.

He is facing a probe panel set up by President Muhammadu over allegations of corruption and insubordination levelled against him by Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.

Magu and Malami have been at daggers drawn since 2015 following the appointment of the former as EFCC chairman.

The panel investigating Magu is headed by a retired appeal court judge, Ayo Salami, also has representatives of the major security agencies, police and the SSS, as members.

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While the panel has continued its daily sitting, it has been held behind closed doors in the absence of journalists.

Government officials including presidential spokespersons have refrain from speaking publicly on the bearing of the investigation and of Mr. Magu.

Apart from Magu, other senior officials of the agency including its secretary, Olanipekun Olukoyede, are believed to have appeared before the panel.

Unlike Magu, however, every other person who has appeared before the panel has been allowed to go home after the appearance.

He is allowed to see his family at the Area 10 police building in Abuja where he is detained and sleeps at one of its waiting rooms, PREMIUM TIMES quoted a source close to Magu to have said

He also has access to his lawyers and spends virtually all day answering questions at the panel since Monday.

“He is taken away from the FCID to the villa around 9 a.m. and brought back around 11 p.m. every day,” a security source told PREMIUM TIMES, saying Mr Magu is interrogated daily by the presidential panel.