Posted by By Tony Orilade/Abuja on
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), this morning, admitted raiding Ibrahim Magu's house, and gave reasons for its action.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), this morning, admitted raiding Ibrahim Magu's house, and gave reasons for its action.
According to the commission's spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, Magu, who was until recently in charge of the e-governance department of the commission, was suspected to be in possession of documents discovered missing in the commission.
The documents, Babafemi told P.M.News, were those involving high-profile cases especially cases of ex-governors and serving governors who are under investigation. This development, he said, led to the institution of a probe panel to get to the root of the matter. Ibrahim Magu was alleged to have stolen the documents, the panel report stated.
On the strength of this, operatives were on Monday despatched to his house. 'For about 4 hours, the operatives waited for Magu, whom his family members said was not around. Efforts were made to reach him but he didn't show up until 4 hours later. When he eventually arrived, he led the operatives into his house for the search to be conducted and the search yielded fruitful results.
'The documents were found in his house. Also found was a computer belonging to the commission which contained classified information," Babafemi said. Asked whether Magu signed that those documents and the computer were found in his house, Babafemi said he indeed signed. 'But I was shocked later in the day when journalists started calling me that Magu had been arrested. Some people even said he was under house arrest. There was nothing like that," the commission spokesman stated.
P.M.News, however, gathered that Magu, a police man, who had been redeployed to the Force Headquarters before the Monday incident, would be recalled to answer to these grave allegations which the commission's chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, is not taking lightly.