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Magu denies buying luxury homes in highbrow Maitama

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The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has denied reports that he bought two luxury homes in Maitama,Abuja.

” Since I came to the EFCC, nobody has investigated me, he said before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja where he was testifying in a libel suit he filed against The Sun Newspaper.

” I am not under any probe, the publication is totally false. Even if I have the money, I wouldn’t buy houses in Maitama.

 “I want to tell you the damage it has done to me. It was not done to me alone, it has gone down my lineage, the entire family, and it has done so much wrong. It has done so much damage.”

Magu dismissed as false The newspaper’s publication of March 25, 2017, titled ‘Magu under fresh probe,’ which claimed that two houses located in Maitama, Abuja were traced to his wife.  

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