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A former Assistant Director with the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, says the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, became a law unto himself and refused to submit to constituted authority.
Amachree said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday, monitored by The Punch.
He said the Attorney-General of the Federation remained the supervising authority over the EFCC just as the Department of Justice oversees the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.
He said Magu should not have been engaged in a battle with the AGF, Abubakar Malami (SAN), adding that it wasn’t the DSS that arrested Magu but policemen attached to the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.
“I think Magu has some blame on his side. Apparently, he was operating as a law unto himself. He must be reporting to somebody. Even in the US, the FBI reports to the Department of Justice. In Nigeria, EFCC ought to report to the AGF who is now the originator of the allegations,” said the ex-DSS boss.
“When this thing came up, they knew he may not want to come, I don’t know, but he was stopped on the way to another meeting but they said he must go before the panel. He was accosted by policemen from the FCID.
“However, because they were policemen in plain clothes, many people thought it was the DSS.”
MERIDIAN SPY reported Monday, Magu was arrested by operatives of the DSS over money laundering allegations.
He was alleged to own four properties and that he was allegedly transferring funds abroad through a third party.
A presidential panel headed by Ayo Salami, former president of the court of appeal, was set up to probe the embattled EFCC acting chairman.
The Cable understands that the panel sat till 10pm on Monday after which Magu was detained at the police headquarters in Abuja.
