The usually sleepy Asokoro neighbourhood in Abuja was jolted Tuesday morning on November 21, after a team of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and their Nigeria Police counterparts attempted to arrest a former Director General of the State Security Services (SSS), Mr. Ita Ekpeyong.
The EFCC team also tried to arrest the embattled former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr. Ayo Oke, who incidentally resides within the same street as the DGSS and has been accused by the EFCC of failing to honour its previous invitations.

Ordinarily, operations of an anti-corruption agency like the EFCC should not be subject to scrutiny and criticisms but these have become inevitable under Ibrahim Magu’s leadership of the beleaguered and evidently compromised agency.

For an agency that has recently been enmeshed in internal bickering over revelations by its staff that Magu has nearly ran the commission aground due to his many indiscretions and lack of competence as well as allegations of diversion of 750 million naira approved by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for the anti-corruption war, one wonders what satisfaction Magu derives by further plunging the agency into more crisis and unnecessary rivalry with relevant security agencies.

In his latest media grandstanding, Magu dubiously roped-in the arrest of the former DGSS with the indicted former DG NIA, in an futile brinkmanship which betrays his vendetta for a agency that in a rather commendable course of due diligence warned in a letter preceding his screening by the Senate, that “Magu has failed the integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption drive of the present administration.”

The obvious intention of the failed Asokoro double swoop was that having released a statement claiming the former DG NIA had failed to honour its invitation, the EFCC would then succeed in portraying Mr. Ekpeyong as also turning down invitations to its office. And so, while Magu goes to press to tout his anti-corruption war, in this instance, the target was clearly to get back at an agency which he despises for doing its own duty.

Magu’s EFCC had earlier in October, gone to media with baseless allegations that the DSS was shielding some of its officers from investigation. An allegation that received serious backlash among Nigerians who wondered if the EFCC had a case at all.

Beyond Magu’s misplaced vendetta however, is his dangerous tendency for selective and compromised prosecution of the anti-corruption war. The agency sold the allegation that Mr. Ekpeyong is wanted for his part in the disbursement of arms funds during the last administration, which raises the curiosity over why none of the Chiefs of Army Staff who served about the same time with Mr. Ekpeyong are being investigated let alone arrested.

For the records, the bulk of arms purchases approved by the last administration for which Magu is now witch-hunting perceived enemies, were done by the Army which was rightly the lead-agency in the war against insurgency and terrorism. During this time, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika was Chief of Army Staff between September 2010 to January 2014 and was succeeded by Major Gen. Kenneth Minimah, who served till July 2015. Till date, none of these men have been arrested.

Heads of security agencies usually press for inter-agency synergy for its obvious advantages. But with an agency head obsessed with media showmanship, such professionally edifying principles as synergy and liaison are alien and contrary to his vindictive convictions. Unsurprisingly, as with his many media trials and very few court convictions of accused corrupt persons, the EFCC and by extension, the anti-corruption campaign takes a huge hit from his incompetence.

Even the DSS would by now be shocked by the actuality of its own forewarning that Magu “will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption drive of the present administration.”


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Pls, stop trying to dress d dss in clean garments!

As for Magu; try arrest them, be damned, dont arrest them, n still be damned.

If they had nothing to hide, why not honour efcc's invitation!

National security is very delicate. Some matters are better handled quietly. That's why efcc should be diplomatic about it all

ashjay001:
Pls, stop trying to dress d dss in clean garments!


As for Magu; try arrest them, be damned, dont arrest them, n still be damned.


If they had nothing to hide, why not honour efcc's invitation!

Dress them in dirty garment if you like, Magu is a misfit. A vindictive, petty person that has now become a liability to the agency he leads.

Projide:


Dress them in dirty garment if you like, Magu is a misfit. A vindictive, petty person that has now become a liability to the agency he leads.

I guess u were paid for ds cleaning exercise? Good barely triumphs over evil, in today's world, n only a thief can track a thief!

U were all hoping for someone u could intimidate ba?

Ita Ekenyong n Oke oversaw corruption n deserve to be probed, wether by d devil or by an angel, who cares!

Projide:


Dress them in dirty garment if you like, Magu is a misfit. A vindictive, petty person that has now become a liability to the agency he leads.

Magu's current action makes him a great liability to the anti graft agency.

More so, you don't trivialize security matters on the pages of Newspapers and expect the two most sensitive intelligence agencies to clap for you.

The ovation is fast fading out. He had better resigned and go on exile, NOW.

ashjay001:



I guess u were paid for ds cleaning exercise? Good barely triumphs over evil, in today's world, n only a thief can track a thief!

U were all hoping for someone u could intimidate ba?

Ita Ekenyong n Oke oversaw corruption n deserve to be probed, wether by d devil or by an angel, who cares!

Who cares?
You care because you're obviously not Nigerian.
If you do not see anything wrong in Magu's dangerous and ultimately futile media grandstanding, they you're indeed a non-Nigerian or possibly, under Magu's payroll - he has a lot of you guys now.

Projide:


Who cares?
You care because you're obviously not Nigerian.
If you do not see anything wrong in Magu's dangerous and ultimately futile media grandstanding, they you're indeed a non-Nigerian or possibly, under Magu's payroll - he has a lot of you guys now.

U're living a lie


U cant even use ur real moniker to post this

ashjay001:







U're living a lie


U cant even use ur real moniker to post this

Moniker � abi Monica? St. Ashjay001

ashjay001:
Pls, stop trying to dress d dss in clean garments!


As for Magu; try arrest them, be damned, dont arrest them, n still be damned.


If they had nothing to hide, why not honour efcc's invitation!

just read that they are answerable to only the president. the law said so

PrettyRita:


just read that they are answerable to only the president. the law said so

Answerable, only to d president n d constitution. Same way with Magu, SGF n a host of other executive team members.


Checks n balances, are in place to mitigate against corruption. Though, their trails shouldnt be made into a jamboree! Something d efcc tried to avoid by not publicising their invitation.

Projide:

Moniker � abi Monica? St. Ashjay001

Google dey!


Aint a saint, just rooting for d underdog! And, tired of all these looted absurd sums!