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The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has ordered the withdrawal of police security aides attached to suspended EFCC acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu.
This came hours after Magu sought for administrative bail on “self recognisance” from the IGP through his legal representative, Oluwatosin Ojaomo in a letter dated July 10, 2020.
MERIDIAN SPY gathered that all mobile police officers attached to the suspended EFCC boss’s official and personal residence were withdrawn on the orders of Adamu, while also redeploying the mobile police officers at the EFCC.
A source confirmed that the order was issued by the IGP on Friday and has been complied with.
As from Monday, “only staff of the EFCC would be allowed into the EFCC buildings” based on Mr Adamu’s directive, another source told Premium Times.
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.”
