Nigeria’s head of anti-corruption agency sacked for being grossly corrupt
Nigeria: Head of anti-corruption agency sacked for gross corruption
In Nigeria, the head of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and police officer, Ibrahim Magu, has been sacked after establishing that he is corrupt.
Sources said Magu made deals with his victims and failed to reconcile the amount of money he recovered from ‘corrupt’ with the sum he declared to the Nigerian government. he used the difference to buy posh property abroad. Magu’s mantra is “If we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill us”
Magu who has been in that capacity since 2015 was arrested on Monday, detained over the night before his suspension by the federal government.
The EFCC under Magu has been hunting Nigerians on allegations of corruption. The flipside of the situation is that the same corruption fighter is densely corrupt.
On Monday, a combined team of Department of State Services personnel and policemen arrested Magu at the Wuse II office of the EFCC to face an interagency committee investigating corruption allegations against him.
He was detained at the FCID in Area 10, Abuja, on Monday night on the orders of the committee that also questioned him on Tuesday morning.
A source in the Presidency confirmed to this newspaper that Magu has now been suspended pending when a decision will be taken on him.