PRESIDENT BUHARI ATTENDS JUMA'AT PRAYER 7A&B. L-R; Acting Chairman EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, National Security Adviser to the President Major General, Babagana Monguno, Commander of Brigade of guards Brig Gen MS Yusuf and Director General DSS, Lawan Daura and in a chat after Juma'at prayer at the Aso Villa in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. APRIL 21 2017.
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Magu Will Remain EFCC Boss, Defiant Osinbajo Tells Senate

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[dropcap]A[/dropcap] defiant Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, tired of Senate stalling the administration’s nominee to lead the EFCC on Thursday revealed that President Buhari has resolved to work with Ibrahim Magu as EFCC Chairman to stamp out endemic corruption in the country.

“Mr Chairman, two weeks ago, I discussed the EFCC and your appointment with President Muhammadu Buhari and he told me he has every confidence in you and every confidence in the commission and the work that you have been doing, and as long as he is president you remain the chairman of the EFCC,’’ he said at the inauguration of the Kaduna office of the anti graft agency on Thursday.

In a defiant display of executive power, the acting president said that those who think that they were winning in fighting back against the government’s war on corruption, should wake up.

Represented by Gov Nasiru El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Osinbajo said, so long as Buhari remained Nigeria’ s President, Magu would continue to work as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

El-Rufa’ also told the gathering that the Acting president was also solidly behind Magu.

“Last night, I spoke with the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who reconfirmed the position of the President and told me that as long as he remained the Acting President or Vice President, Ibrahim Magu would remain the chairman of the EFCC.

“That is the only message from the President, so those thinking that corruption is winning this war, Magu would remain their nightmare for the next two years or six years as the case may be.’’

The governor had earlier said his administration donated the office to the EFCC to demonstrate its “zero tolerance to bad behaviour by public office holders, contractors, businesses and citizens.

 

“This is the reason I have suggested that we set up prison for the corrupt in the Sambisa forest, where they can be kept away and have the sobriety to be truly reformed,” Magu said.

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