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Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has backed the ongoing probe of the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Fayose said the aim of the probe should not be to dismiss Magu from office but to also reveal beneficiaries of the seized properties sold by the embattled EfCC boss.
“There must be full investigation into the sales of properties seized by the EFCC under Magu. Those recovered loots that were ‘relooted’ must be ‘re-recovered’,” he said.
“The probe must not be just to achieve the sole aim of removing Magu from office.
“Nigerians must know beneficiaries of the seized properties and how they were sold because most of these properties were bought by associates of Magu, including some so-called human rights lawyers.
“These human rights lawyers were his promoters and today, they are the ones defending him because they know that if this investigation goes deeper than just looking for what Magu did wrong so as to remove him from office, their dirty secrets will be revealed for Nigerians to see.
“This investigation must not end up as their usual paddy-paddy arrangement.
“It should not end up as a tool just to remove Magu because removing him will not be enough, the loots already ‘relooted’ must be ‘re-recovered’ and those who ‘relooted’ the loots brought to book.”
Magu was arrested and is being grilled by a presidential probe panel headed by Ayo Salami, a retired president of the appeal court, over allegations of corruption, insubordination and abuse of office.
He was alleged to have misappropriated recovered loots by the commission and selling of seized assets to associates as well as refusing to subject himself to the supervision of the office of the attorney-general.
MERIDIAN SPY reported Friday the President, Muhammadu Buhari approved his suspension as the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency “to allow for unhindered inquiry by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other relevant laws”.
Buhari also approved that the EFCC Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar, takes charge and oversee the activities of the Commission pending the conclusion of the ongoing investigation and “further directives in that regards”.
