Suspended Acting EFCC Chairman, Magu, Released From Detention
The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been released.
Magu was released on Wednesday evening.
Magu has been in detention for over a week at the Force CID headquarters in Garki, Abuja, after he was arrested on Monday, July 6.
He has appeared before a Presidential Panel investigating allegations of corruption and insubordination levelled against him by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, had on Wednesday denied responsibility for Magu’s detention.
Tosin Ojaoma, Magu’s lawyer, had written to the IGP last week requesting for Magu’s bail.
But the police boss, in a statement signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Owohunwa, Principal Staff Officer for the Inspector General of Police, washed his hands off Magu’s detention, attributing it to the presidential panel.
In a letter addressed to Magu’s lawyer with reference number: CB:7000/IGP.SEC/ABJ/VOL.489/ 171, dated July 14, 2020, the IGP explained that Magu was not being detained by the police but by the panel investigating the activities of the EFCC.
“Your letter 00C/TOL/89A/07/2020 of 10th July, 2020 on the above-underlined subject refers,” the IGP’s response read in part.
“The Inspector General of Police directs that your attention be drawn to the fact that the Nigeria Police Force is not investigating C.P. Ibrahim Magu (your client) and he is accordingly, not being detained by the police but by the presidential panel that is investigating the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
“The Inspector-General of Police, therefore, advises that you consider re-directing your request to the Chairman of the presidential panel for appropriate attention.
“I am to convey the assurances of the warmest regards of the Inspector of Police, please,” the letter read.
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