Our correspondents learnt on Tuesday that following the President’s directive, the AGF had, on Monday, issued a query to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

Sources in the Federal Ministry of Justice and the EFCC confirmed that the query was delivered to Magu on Monday.

It was learnt that the query was accompanied by allegations contained in the security report prepared by the Department of State Services and upon which the Senate had, last Thursday, rejected his confirmation as the EFCC chairman.

“The AGF has started enforcing the directive by the President. I can confirm to you that the minister has taken the first step by querying the Acting Chairman of the EFCC,” a source in the Federal Ministry of Justice said.

The source could, however, not confirm what step the AGF had taken on the allegations levelled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal.

The source could also not confirm the ultimatum issued to Magu to respond to the query.

Meanwhile, a source close to the acting chairman of the commission said the anti-corruption officer had received the query.

He said he had already commenced preparing his defence to the allegations raised by the DSS.

The source added, “Yes, he has received the query with the DSS report sent to the Senate on him.

“Ironically, the query only contains one of the letters written by the DSS to the Senate.

“I think he has no problem with the query, but the question being asked by some people is that, he ought to have been given time to respond to the allegations before the Senate took that position.”

The letter, dated October 3, was addressed to the Clerk of the Senate, in response to a letter by the Senate, dated September 21, 2016, asking for Magu’s security check.

The report, which listed several alleged offences against the EFCC boss, said his confirmation would frustrate the anti-graft drive of the Buhari-led administration.

Part of the allegations against Magu was his being in possession of EFCC documents in his private residence during the chairmanship of Farida Waziri.

The DSS also made reference to the circumstances surrounding Magu’s arrest, detention and suspension by the Nigeria Police.

The secret service also alleged that the sum of N40m was paid for the rented apartment, which costs N20m per annum, where the acting EFCC chairman currently resides in Abuja.

It added that the accommodation was not paid for from the commission’s account but by a presidential appointee, who had been under investigation.

The DSS alleged that after renting the apartment for Magu, the friend awarded a N43m contract for the furnishing of the accommodation.

The appointee, who is a retired Air Commodore, was said to be a close associate and ally of Magu, and allegedly “runs questionable business” and was once arrested by the service.

The report, which cleared the other four EFCC appointees, said Magu flew a private jet owned by the retired military officer.

The service also claimed that the EFCC boss was once in the same flight to Maiduguri with a Managing Director of one of the new generation banks, who it alleged, was under investigation.

The Senate had, at plenary on Wednesday, called for the removal and prosecution of the SGF following alleged complicity in contract awards to take care of the Internally Displaced Persons in the North-East.

This followed the presentation of the interim report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East by the Chairman of the Committee, Shehu Sani.

The call for Lawal’s removal followed alleged contravention of the provisions of the Public Procurement Act and the Federal Government’s Financial Rules and Regulations pertaining to award of contracts.

Presenting the report, Sani said some of the contracts were awarded to companies belonging to top government officials’ cronies and family members.

He explained that the committee found out that Global Vision Engineering Limited, a company, with Lawal as Director, for instance, was awarded a consultancy contract.

Sani said despite being an IT company, the firm got a job to clear grass in Yobe State at N200m.

He said although Lawal resigned the directorship of the said company in September 2016, it was on record that he was a signatory to the accounts of the company.

Lawal denied all the allegations, saying “the Senate is talking balderdash; it has developed a bring-him-down syndrome.”

http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/21/agf-malami-queries-magu-begins-probe-dss-allegations

Nigeria is a z-hoo

Is this Nairaland?

first time on fp..............2017 here we come

Who is querying who?

Clown

Ok

Mtcheeew

Believe it or not this is how a government should work...even if it's just for "face value"..

Not 20 youths die due to negligence of a minister and nothing happens....

Magu is one of the reasons Nigerians will know the true Buhari.
Buhari is slowly revealing that side of him that he hid from stupid Nigerians for decades.
His corruption and how he uses fronts to hide is slowly revealing itself.

That Magu has offended Abba Kyari and a few other mediocre who control Buhari has led to his demise.

Buhari is taken the right step. You don't expect to accept the accusations and sack them just because somebody in dss or Senate said so.

Dont worry Magu. Lauretta Onochie of the presidency will help you answer the query just like she has done for the SGF.

Magu don heat am,magu have hear it.

Ok

grodt999:
Magu is one of the reasons Nigerians will know the true Buhari.
Buhari is slowly revealing that side of him that he hid from stupid Nigerians for decades.
His corruption and how he uses fronts to hide is slowly revealing itself.

That Magu has offended Abba Kyari and a few other mediocre who control Buhari has led to his demise.

Walahi bro God go bless u, dis guys in ASO rock behaves as if dey are buharis boss.... Lyk dey say we are observing sha

Our elders as failed yet again in dis country smh!!!

Omeokachie:
Dont worry Magu. Lauretta Onochie of the presidency will help you answer the query just like she has done for the SGF.

Lol lol lol, you are on point. Corruption is fighting back

Intense power play at work. Maman Daura is having his way afterall.
Aisha Buhari foresaw allthese coming

I can foresee a lot of cover-ups

Even the SGF is doing everything possible to cover his ugly trails.

Nigerians are waiting to see Mr President wave the magic wand in the fight against corruption here. His actions on these two major cases will prove his net worth.

Good move

Who is querying who ? Buhari himself is corrupt. Malami is corrupt. Jonathan is their father. Obasanjo, Atiku, IBB, Tinubu, Amaechi, Fashola(the man that sunk just two borehole with over #120 millions and he was having confidence to say that he followed due process), Osiomole, Aregbesola, Fayose, Saraki, El Rufia among others are not saint.
Look at this front page of this paper below. That was before the media went to the dogs.

Most sorted two political criminals probing each other. Lol

Disarray in governance

infohenry:
Buhari is taken the right step. You don't expect to accept the accusations and sack them just because somebody in dss or Senate said so.

But if past leaders did that they were corrupt or promoting corruption. We are a nation of hypocrites!

Nigeria is truely a Zoo...why didn't the CCT,and CCT deal squarely with Saraki,and Dogara?..Are the above the law?..This hav gone a long way to show cueless,and corrupt this APC government is...Leave Magu alone...thr senate is scared that most of the corrupt representatives will be exposed,and disgraced,that was why they were quick to kick against his comfirmation...Any which way he will remain the EFCC boss in the interim..What a country!..Shame

The only way Buhari to show he stands by the corruption war, is to either find some time ways to bring in sum1 sterner than magu, to work closely with magu, Or to keep magu in action capacity anything other than that, I will give up on PMB.
as war on corruption is all I cling with him for.

the more you look, the less you see query. one of those APC lies.

In the other news, u told us buhari shops for replacement of babaunchair. What do we bliv on NL?

Babysheart:

Our correspondents learnt on Tuesday that following the President’s directive, the AGF had, on Monday, issued a query to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu.

Sources in the Federal Ministry of Justice and the EFCC confirmed that the query was delivered to Magu on Monday.

It was learnt that the query was accompanied by allegations contained in the security report prepared by the Department of State Services and upon which the Senate had, last Thursday, rejected his confirmation as the EFCC chairman.

“The AGF has started enforcing the directive by the President. I can confirm to you that the minister has taken the first step by querying the Acting Chairman of the EFCC,” a source in the Federal Ministry of Justice said.

The source could, however, not confirm what step the AGF had taken on the allegations levelled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal.

The source could also not confirm the ultimatum issued to Magu to respond to the query.

Meanwhile, a source close to the acting chairman of the commission said the anti-corruption officer had received the query.

He said he had already commenced preparing his defence to the allegations raised by the DSS.

The source added, “Yes, he has received the query with the DSS report sent to the Senate on him.

“Ironically, the query only contains one of the letters written by the DSS to the Senate.

“I think he has no problem with the query, but the question being asked by some people is that, he ought to have been given time to respond to the allegations before the Senate took that position.”

The letter, dated October 3, was addressed to the Clerk of the Senate, in response to a letter by the Senate, dated September 21, 2016, asking for Magu’s security check.

The report, which listed several alleged offences against the EFCC boss, said his confirmation would frustrate the anti-graft drive of the Buhari-led administration.

Part of the allegations against Magu was his being in possession of EFCC documents in his private residence during the chairmanship of Farida Waziri.

The DSS also made reference to the circumstances surrounding Magu’s arrest, detention and suspension by the Nigeria Police.

The secret service also alleged that the sum of N40m was paid for the rented apartment, which costs N20m per annum, where the acting EFCC chairman currently resides in Abuja.

It added that the accommodation was not paid for from the commission’s account but by a presidential appointee, who had been under investigation.

The DSS alleged that after renting the apartment for Magu, the friend awarded a N43m contract for the furnishing of the accommodation.

The appointee, who is a retired Air Commodore, was said to be a close associate and ally of Magu, and allegedly “runs questionable business” and was once arrested by the service.

The report, which cleared the other four EFCC appointees, said Magu flew a private jet owned by the retired military officer.

The service also claimed that the EFCC boss was once in the same flight to Maiduguri with a Managing Director of one of the new generation banks, who it alleged, was under investigation.

The Senate had, at plenary on Wednesday, called for the removal and prosecution of the SGF following alleged complicity in contract awards to take care of the Internally Displaced Persons in the North-East.

This followed the presentation of the interim report of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East by the Chairman of the Committee, Shehu Sani.

The call for Lawal’s removal followed alleged contravention of the provisions of the Public Procurement Act and the Federal Government’s Financial Rules and Regulations pertaining to award of contracts.

Presenting the report, Sani said some of the contracts were awarded to companies belonging to top government officials’ cronies and family members.

He explained that the committee found out that Global Vision Engineering Limited, a company, with Lawal as Director, for instance, was awarded a consultancy contract.

Sani said despite being an IT company, the firm got a job to clear grass in Yobe State at N200m.

He said although Lawal resigned the directorship of the said company in September 2016, it was on record that he was a signatory to the accounts of the company.

Lawal denied all the allegations, saying “the Senate is talking balderdash; it has developed a bring-him-down syndrome.”

http://saharareporters.com/2016/12/21/agf-malami-queries-magu-begins-probe-dss-allegations

Magi is queried, Babachir is flexing... We are pytin and all inkulusib kwarapshun

Toothless bingo, all bark and no bite when it comes to Baba's cronies

Hahahhh
Do me, I do you...

Nobody go vex

infohenry:
Buhari is taken the right step. You don't expect to accept the accusations and sack them just because somebody in dss or Senate said so.

and the judges can be raided and arrested for mere accusations from same dss? Ndi mmadu self