The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, has said Ibrahim Magu’s appointment will be renewed whether he is confirmed or not.

Mr. Magu is the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Senate on Thursday refused to confirm his appointment after leaving the matter pending for five months.

In a wide-ranging interview published in the current edition of The Interview, Mr. Sagay said, “whether they like it or not, he (Magu) will be there. His chairmanship will keep on being renewed.

“Since Nuhu Ribadu left, we have not had a man with such sterling qualities as Ibrahim Magu and whether they like it or not, Magu will be there until he completes his term under the law.”

The EFCC chairman has a four-year tenure. From the EFCC Act, non-confirmation does not impair his duties.

A statement by the MD/Editor-In-Chief, Azu Ishiekwene, described the edition as “arguably the best kept secret in the anti-corruption war.”

The Senate said it would not confirm Mr. Magu based on “security reports.”

No details were given.

In the interview conducted before Thursday’s confirmation hearing, Mr. Sagay said Mr. Magu’s delayed confirmation was “corruption fighting back.”

Also speaking on corruption in the judiciary, he said what retiring chief justices collect off the books is “frightening and totally unrelated to what the judiciary is entitled to.”

The National Judicial Council recently suspended seven justices of the Supreme Court on allegations of corruption and two of them have so far been arraigned.

Investigations by The Interview, which Mr. Sagay neither confirmed nor denied, indicated that the NJC pays retiring justices up to N800m in cash and provides a house valued at N500m, off the books.

The practice started around 2010 and virtually all retired CJs have benefited from it.

“Something very serious is happening there,” Sagay said. “Those rumours have some basis.”

He also spoke on the acting appointment of the current Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen; the perpetual injunction from arrest or investigation granted to former Rivers State Governor, Peter Odili; his relationship with Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi; and President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption.

In the edition also, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes, Kayode Oladele, said the wrong public perception of lawmakers was based on insufficient information, saying there were victims of public ignorance.

He spoke on the future of the fight against corruption and the efforts of his committee to restore Nigeria as a full member of the Financial Action Task Force.

The end-of-year edition also contained some of the inside story in the making of Daily Trust newspapers by its former Managing Director, Isiaq Ajibola, and an interview with the current African champion of table tennis, Funke Oshonaike.

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Seems Itse Sagay is the number two nuisance in Nigeria today after Buhari

Oga itsay sagay

I learned the guy too is not clean

We want him to do beyond what he's doing now

talktimi:
Seems Itse Sagay is the number two nuisance in Nigeria today after Buhari

Don't just insult be constructive

Na prof sau makr MMM hit you hard ?

Buhari useless gufment has really emboldened so many annoying idiiots.

Mr Shege, abi Woka, you know you are an old fool?

the way our politicians talk sometimes make you think maybe they are high on weed all the time

sarrki:


Don't just insult be constructive

Na prof sau makr MMM hit you hard ?

So our laws no longer matter because you work in a data centre?

Itse Sagay is what the late Ahmadu Bello aptly described as the willing tool in the southern Nigeria.

Itse is it by force to confirm whom the people representing All Nigerians said they are not going to confirme? Na wah for this people o!! Some salient and disturbing issues were raised by a competent state apparatus in d person of the DSS instead of you as a person coming from d academic background to disprove it with a superior facts your here saying trash!! #imForNoBodyO0o0oo0

The senate should stop funding whstever committee itse sagay is leading. It should be declared illegal body.
Of course, no money for efcc as long as the thief magun is still there

Observing........

idupaul:


So our laws no longer matter because you work I a data centre?

Do you know your law?
Are you not aware he can remain EFFC boss on acting capacity till the end of Buharis tenure. Let me give you an example when Mark Nwogu was the GGM of NAPIMS the SINACTORS then refused to confirm him he finished his tenure on acting capacity till he retired.
They presidency might decide to re-apoint Magu and forward his name back to the senate.

Please, what is Itse SaGAY??

And the funny thing is magu is likely not going anywhere. You'll be surprised to wake up tomorrow and hear Magu has been confirmed by this same Senators, Nobi Nigerian senate again? Finally finally ayaff given up on this country and administration

Buhari's govt stink with corruption don't ask me why ask babachair or babatable...

byrron:


It is even more pathetic that sagay, a renowned constitutional lawyer is even the one encouraging the flagrant relegation and abuse of constitutional provisions by sounding like a garage tout.

sad someone with such a sterling reputation like Mr Sagay would throw it all away just for a bowl of garri. Now even baby lawyers would be looking at him with disdain and ridicule

sarrki:


When you see MMM victim you will know

glad to see your life is so frustrated and pathetic, it might be because you have a one track brain with zero IQ but then again it just might be because of the repeated blows to the head given to you by your mom as a kid for ruining her marriage. I don't hate you, the world is not against you, I'm sorry your father r@ped you

NOC1:

Do you know your law?
Are you not aware he can remain EFFC boss on acting capacity till the end of Buharis tenure. Let me give you an example when Mark Nwogu was the GMD of NNPC the SINACTORS then refused to confirm him he finished his tenure on acting capacity till he retired.
They presidency might decide to re-apoint Magu and forward his name back to the senate.

If the Senate rejects him then its over for him.He can't continue acting indefinitely

I don't know between Solomon Daulung and Itse Sagay who sounds more stupid


Mofos.

NOC1:

Do you know your law?
Are you not aware he can remain EFFC boss on acting capacity till the end of Buharis tenure. Let me give you an example when Mark Nwogu was the GGM of NAPIMS the SINACTORS then refused to confirm him he finished his tenure on acting capacity till he retired.
They presidency might decide to re-apoint Magu and forward his name back to the senate.

That's not our law but impunity

sarrki:



You have to know the difference between a motor garage and when you are in the gathering of reasonable
People

Gutter language is not accepted here

LOL !!! Little lizard thinks its an aligator. Thanks for the advice girl but you need it more than I do