OBAGADAFFI:
But the DSS is working for the Presidency, why are they fighting President appointees

Because of Magu's resolve to investigate some companies the DSS' tog guys have interest in.

Ok

Nigeria we hail thee! Why would the SSS be falsifying the truth to destroy this man? Somebody must be up to a sinister plot..the president must be careful with some of this people .

case

I knew the Senate doesnt have shit on him.

the issue is getting complicated

If DSS report on Magu is debunked, why should their report on any other individual whether in the past or in future be accepted?

Charly68:
Nigeria we hail thee! Why would the SSS be falsifying the truth to destroy this man? Somebody must be up to a sinister plot..the president must be careful with some of this people .

Looks like Sahara reporters have the correct gist on this one...they have since reported that Daura is out to deal with Magu for daring to go after some persons...Tonye cole of Sahara energy was one of the said people.
Buhari is probably too old and dull to understand that he is going to self destruct if things continue this way, how can an agency under his supervision not get clearance from him on his nominee before sending cooked up shit to the Assembly of criminals? Is the Dss power tussling with him? What a disappointment Buhari is.

All na wash

From Premium Times' Corroboration, It Could Be Inferred That The Senate Wasn't Entirely Far From The Truth. It's Not As If The Allegations Are Baseless, They're Verifiable.

Senate has not been able to convince most of us for lack of transparency. Mr. Magu would have been given opportunity to clear himself before rejecting his appointment if found guilty. Most Senators are quick to believe all the allegations without thorough scrutiny because they know that with Magu, "no mago mago" Corrupt Senators are just delaying their evil days but will certainly come. After dealing with all corrupt judges, corrupt Senators should be prepared because they are the next irrespective of whose ox is gored.

Noblesoul123:
This looks like a sponsored publication. The best thing that Magu should do is to prove his innocence in terms of the allegations contained in the Secret Report beyond reasonable doubt. Providing documentary evidence of flight manifest, title deeds of his rented house etc, will go a long way to help his case

Did you read what you wrote above? How can he provide title deeds to a rented house? Does your landlord give you title deeds to the house you are renting? Or do you give the title deed of your house to your tenants?

Besides the article clearly said he was NOT given an opportunity to defend himself. Methinks the fault is with the Senate. He should be rescreened more transparently

It's a gang up against Magu. Criminal cohorts in the senate don't want him confirmed. They want someone they can control at the expense of fighting corruption. These guys in the senate abhor discipline and good governance and want corruption continues unabated.

Whether, the senate approves it or not, Magu is the man for the job for now.

sanchos9607:


Did you read what you wrote above? How can he provide title deeds to a rented house? Does your landlord give you title deeds to the house you are renting? Or do you give the title deed of your house to your tenants?

Photocopies to exonerate himself. Documentary evidence would have given credibility to the article

DropShot:
The Senate is a congregation of thieves and criminals who will do anything to have a corrupt EFCC chairman instead of an upright Magu.

The EFCC under mr Magu is selective!!!

Whatever reason the Senate is giving for not confirming this guy. I'm not buying it. It is because they want a puppet they can control on that seat. I weep for this country. Nigeria jagajaga

Premium times una don collect and una done try use una pen so go enjoy your share of the bread. Nigerians sabi pass before weh be say na 'Simbi goes to school'. Let Magu put up a concrete defence or PMB in his usual style turn deaf ear at all and pretend he travelled and forgot as he's damn sure that he's working with saints like his official chair saint Baba-chair, saint Amaechi, saint Sylvia, saint Burantashi, saint Magu and other mecheta-mecheta saints in the cabal-net sorry cabinet

DropShot:

Because of Magu's resolve to investigate some companies the DSS' tog guys have interest in.

Is the allegation right or wrong?
Stop deceiving ur self.

Like someone said let him prove them wrong.

This issue of Magu,DSS and senate is a confirmation of rumour that Buhari has lost control of this government and that she has been hijacked by very few individuals that has nothing to do with the change slogan of the APC; abi how can somebody who have been in govt and playing an active role in her day to day activities couple with heading the main core of the tenet of electing the govt into power suddenly becomes a security threat to the formation he has been superintending on for a whole year? If this phantom report are actually true which I strongly belief not even before this PT report,some of the PEP Magu has been hounding into gulag would have call him out as the SEC DG did then to Hembe. These are the things the first lady saw coming that led to that BBC interview because when those that are not part of the plan hijack it midway it becomes rudder less as we are seen in Nigeria now! My advise is PMB should retrace his step(s) and go back to basis by speedily working with the foundational change policy maker that will not allow his name to be rubbish at the end of this administration so that the general saying of the latter glory will be bigger than the former will not be in auto reverse for him because some of us really work assiduously for his(PMB) emergence than for him to mess up by trying to form not to be teleguided or having two presidents and all sort of jejune reaso(s). Shikena

nike4love:


Is the allegation right or wrong?
Stop deceiving ur self.

Like someone said let him prove them wrong.

Did you read the PremiumTimes report or you're just being a wailing zombie?

OBAGADAFFI:
But the DSS is working for the Presidency, why are they fighting President appointees

The COS, Abba Kyari and the DG SSS, Lawal Daura are both against the confirmation of Magu.

Lest we forget, a high ranking Senator visited the acting EFCC Chairman last week and promised to screen him the following day.

In the next day, it was reported that the so-called screening could not take place because of poor attendance at the plenary and was postponed till December 15th.

My mind tells me that the said Senator was sent to Magu with their T&C for the confirmation. But unfortunately, the guy was not forthcoming. That was why the song was changed the second day when the said Senators gave his colleagues the feedback.

Since the guy has decided not to play ball, they decided to just find anything incriminating as excuse for rejecting his nomination. They had to go as far as 2008 believing that all of us would have forgotten what happened then.

Seriously, are you really expecting the Senate to say that they don't want to confirm him because they don't like his face or tactic? They must surely come up with something hence, the damning "security" report has to be concocted.

We have been through this path before. We know how it works with our highly crooked Sinators. Only a fool will believe the crap they put forth as evidence.

Just musing!

https://www.nairaland.com/3506640/ike-ekweremadu-visits-magu-assures

Magu is a clog on the wheels of corrupt politician hence the conspiracy to frustrate him out of office.
Everyone knws that this current EFCC under Magu is the best so far,a commission doing its job without fear or favour.the cabals in the presidency r fighting him cos Magu has refused to be their puppet.
#istandwithmagu

Noblesoul123:
This looks like a sponsored publication. The best thing that Magu should do is to prove his innocence in terms of the allegations contained in the Secret Report beyond reasonable doubt. Providing documentary evidence of flight manifest, title deeds of his rented house etc, will go a long way to help his case.

As for Premium Times It's very interesting that just two days ago, the Senate made public the reason for the non-confirmation of Magu based on a security report by the DSS and just two days later, Premium Times has conducted and concluded a report that exonerates Magu of any wrong-doing?
We are watching this show of shame

Your post looks sponsored.

The newspaper went into its archives and brought out investigations it did in the past regarding some of the cases. It then carried out investigations of new cases mentioned. Why is this hard for you to understand? Please tell us how many days are required for an investigation.

DropShot:

Did you read the PremiumTimes report or you're just being a wailing zombie?

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Upon all this over enjoyment alligation. Magu still remain MAGU! Looks like baboon

This has been in the news since oct 2016

A cabal made up of high-level appointees in President Muhammadu Buhari’s office has struck a deal with Senate President Bukola Saraki to cease all forms of prosecution against him if he would agree to block the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Mr. Saraki has had a series of legal losses in his bid to stop his multiple prosecutions for false asset declaration and money laundering. The senator’s latest legal misfortune came earlier today when a panel of the Court of Appeal dismissed his effort to stop his trial.

However, Mr. Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, as well as the Attorney General of the Federal, Abubakar Malami are conspiring to frustrate Mr. Saraki’s prosecution, according to a finding of a lengthy investigation by our correspondent. Since his appointment as the EFCC’s acting chairman, Mr. Magu has faced unusual impediments from Mr. Kyari and other members of the cabal, all of them members of an inner circle within the Presidency.

Our investigations revealed that Mr. Magu got on the bad side of the president’s Chief of Staff when he refused to drop investigations against Sahara Energy, a company in which Mr. Kyari has a substantial interest. Mr. Magu also incurred the anger of the Chief of Staff when he refused to accept a deal to free Jide Omokore, a businessman with ties to former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke.

Our investigative correspondent learned that Mr. Omokore had made efforts to see President Buhari twice with the assistance of the Chief of Staff and offered bribes to Mr. Kyari and his team. Our investigator also learned that Mr. Kyari had also promised Mr. Omokore that he would be off the hook once he paid back a mere N500 million as restitution, even though the businessman accumulated billions of dollars through fraudulent oil swap deals and questionable acquisition of oil assets arranged by former Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Alison-Madueke.

The EFCC’s Magu scuttled Mr. Kyari’s deal with the oil tycoon when he not only arrested Mr. Omokore but also detained and arraigned him in court for money laundering.

On his part, Attorney General Malami may have joined the conspiracy to fire Mr. Magu from the EFCC because the AGF is close to interests that see Mr. Magu as a threat. Also, a source close to the AGF told our correspondent that Mr. Malami was upset that the EFCC boss was not taking directives from him regarding issues of who to prosecute or not a decision that made him set up a national prosecution committee domiciled in his office. For instance, on several occasion when the EFCC played a major role in the arraignment and prosecution of Senator Saraki, the AGF and several members of his team, including the Solicitor-General of the Federation and the Director of Public Prosecution, had put enormous pressure on Rotimi Jacobs, the independent prosecutor in charge of the case.

Soon after Mr. Magu’s appointment, the AGF had written a scathing report addressed to President Buhari stating why he was completely opposed to Mr. Magu’s confirmation as the substantive EFCC chairman. Based on Mr. Malami’s prompting, Chief of Staff Kyari and the DSS Director-General went to work to find dirt on Mr. Magu. It did not take long before they found out that the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, was a strong backer of the EFCC chair. Mr. Kyari and his team also discovered that both Mr. Monguno and Mr. Magu had been close friends with a former Air Force officer and a member of the Presidential Arms Investigation Panel, Air Commodore Umar Mohammed (rtd).

In June, DSS agents raided Commodore Mohammed’s home and detained him on allegations that he received bribes from some suspects accused of stealing funds budgeted for arms. SaharaReporters learned that, while in DSS detention, Mr. Mohammed was pressured to implicate both Mr. Magu and Mr. Monguno as persons for whom he was collecting bribes from former Nigerian military officers under investigation. However, Mr. Mohammed refused to budge. In retaliation, the DSS refused to release him despite several court orders to do so. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, one of the judges who gave an order for Commodore Mohammed’s release, himself became a victim of a late-night raid by the DSS two weeks as DSS agents began hunting down judges accused of corruption.

When DSS agents could not get Commodore Mohammed to implicate Mr. Monguno and Mr. Magu, they wrote a report claiming that the detained former officer had been paying the rent for Mr. Magu’s home in Abuja. They also alleged that Mr. Magu once flew to Kano on a private jet owned by the detained air force general. When the DSS eventually charged Commodore Mohammed to court, they made no mention of his being a front for Mr. Monguno and Mr. Magu. Instead, he was accused of being in possession of guns with an expired license and $1million allegedly found at his home.

SaharaReporters learned that, as part of the internal conspiracy to stall Mr. Magu’s confirmation, the Chief of Staff, Kyari, refused to forward a letter to the Senate requesting for confirmation of the EFCC boss. However, while President Buhari was in the United Kingdom in June 2016 for a short vacation and medical checkup, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo invoked his powers as Acting President to compel the Chief of Staff to send a letter to the Senate asking for Mr. Magu’s confirmation.

A reluctant Mr. Abba Kyari sent the letter. However, as soon as President Buhari returned the Chief of Staff showed him “mountains of security reports,” including some that claimed Mr. Magu was leaking presidential secrets to Saharareporters and other news media. The source also disclosed that Mr. Buhari wanted to know if Mr. Magu owned expensive homes, huge bank accounts or had ever received proceeds of corruption, to which the COS reportedly answered in affirmative.

A source at the Presidency told our correspondent that President Buhari insisted that, since he ceded power to the VP, everything Mr. Osinbajo did while was away could not be reversed.

According to one source, President Buhari did not want to use Mr. Magu’s confirmation to bargain with Senator Saraki whom he loathes, hence the president did nothing to lobby the Senate President to confirm the EFCC chair even when Mr. Saraki met with him to ask for directives on what to do with Magu.

Our investigation discovered that Mr. Saraki has been an active player in the plot to stop Mr. Magu. The EFCC chair had offended the senator twice during his political career. During the senator’s tenure as Governor of Kwara State, Mr. Magu was in charge of the dreaded “Governance Team” set up by the Nuhu Ribadu-led EFCC to go after corrupt state governors between 2003 and 2009. Mr. Saraki was investigated and was due for arrest when Mr. Ribadu was kicked out of the EFCC after he managed to arrest former Governor James Ibori of Delta State. Mr. Saraki then shopped for and recommended Farida Waziri as Mr. Ribadu’s replacement. As soon as Mrs. Waziri was firmly planted as the chairperson of the EFCC, she went after Mr. Magu, got him arrested and detained on the flimsy excuse that EFCC documents were found on his laptop in Lagos. Mr. Magu spent weeks in detention in 2008 and was subsequently freed and redeployed to the Nigeria police.

Also, as soon as Mr. Magu was appointed to head the EFCC, he arrested Mr. Saraki’s wife, Toyin Saraki, and interrogated her for hours. EFCC officials said Mrs. Saraki wilted under the intense interrogation and offered “very helpful information about her husband’s financial misdeeds.”

SaharaReporters learned that Mr. Magu has made efforts on his own to reach out to Senators to confirm him. However, our investigators learned that some of the top senators demanded that he drop investigations against them or hand over their files to them for destruction before they would back his confirmation. Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, whom Mr. Magu disgraced earlier this year after he was given an award by the EFCC liaison to the National Assembly, reportedly tried to extract apologies from Mr. Magu while secretly filming their encounter. Also, Senator Stella Oduah, a former Aviation Minister, went to meet Mr. Magu in his office in the company of a former Secretary to the Federal Government, Pius Anyim, to pledge her support so long as Mr. Magu was willing to drop investigations relating to her multimillion dollar airport renovation projects during her ministerial tenure under former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Also, former Governor Goodwill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State reportedly asked that Mr. Magu soft-pedals on a myriad of corruption cases against him.

Two EFCC sources told SaharaReporters that Mr. Magu tactically decided to slow down on prosecuting high-profile corruption cases in order to advance his confirmation. However, his confirmation woes appear even more complicated as several targets of EFCC investigations have been pressuring Senators not to confirm him.

Mr. Saraki is coordinating onslaughts on Mr. Magu while regularly telling lobbyists for the EFCC chairman that new conditions must be met before he would move forward on the confirmation. According to one of our sources, Mr. Saraki is demanding that some seasoned EFCC investigators who handled his case be transferred out of the agency back to the police. He had also required that Mr. Magu forward to him all files relating to high- profile investigations of senators. Our source said the Senate President appeared to want the documents to use them either to control other senators or buy their loyalty.

One source said Attorney General Malami had already fulfilled the first part of the agreement between him and Saraki. Last month, the AGF’s office suddenly withdrew forgery charges against Mr. Saraki and his deputy, Mr. Ekweremadu, claiming that prosecutors did not have a watertight case against the two senators. At the next adjourned date, charges were also dropped against two senior National Assembly staffers who aided the forgery of National Assembly rules that led to the controversial election of Mr. Saraki and Mr. Ekweremadu in 2015.

Our source stated that the next case to suffer would be the assets declaration case against Senator Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. According to the source, Rotimi Jacobs, the independent lawyer handling the case, was being pressured to withdraw from it to enable more malleable prosecutors to take over. The source said the strategy was to prevail on the judge to conclude the trial without imposing any significant sentence.

Mr. Saraki, who is currently in Geneva, is assuring those lobbying on behalf of Mr. Magu he would get the EFCC chairman “confirmed” as soon as the cabal at the Presidency sabotages all the anti-corruption cases against him and Mr. Magu promises not to go after some persons of interest to him.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/10/27/cabal-buhari%E2%80%99s-presidency-agrees-free-senate-president-saraki-if-he-frustrates

Its the Katsina Mafia vs the Borno Mafia. In the blue corner is the katsina mafia headed by Mamman Daura, Lawal Daura, Babacir David lawal, Abba Kyari( though from Borno, have pitched his tent with the Katsina mafia, Abubakar Malami.

In the red corner is the Borno Mafia led by Babagana kingibe,Babagana Monguno, Tukur Buratai, Mustafa Ibrahim Magu,Saddique Abubakar.

For disrespecting the office of the first Nephew, the katsina mafia has drawn the first blood. Magu must go
go.

As a trade off, they are ready to sacrifice David lawal to maintain balance. The yeye David is even a christian from Adamawa. Who send am message?
Next will be Monguno. The first time in history of Nigeria' s security services ,that the DG SSS does not take orders from NSA.
Hmnn,This fight go sweet no be small.

What did Magu himself say? Has he denied these allegations?

The same SSS raided the houses of justices and judges, Premiumtimes has not done any FACT CHECK on the allegations.

The media was busy savoring and pushing out sensational stories on allegations of corruption against people they don't like without restraint. They didn't think for one second whether or not the allegations were fabricated.

But, as soon as their darling 'corruption buster' is caught in the web he was part of creating, our 'decorated investigators' are coming to refute allegations on his behalf. Did he also arrest and detain a blogger for writing
against him or didn't he?

Why is Premiumtimes not clamoring for the arraignment of Magu in the court? Why did they not demand that Buhari ask the Attorney General to file a case against him in court. Premiumtimes would have been in good position to present their findings to support his case as witnesses or interested investigators. Or why did they not ask Magu to take the SSS to court for 'lying' against him which cost him the cherished confirmation as the EFCC chair?

We cautioned Magu to conduct his activities professionally sometimes ago. We warned that his own time would come sooner or later. At a point, he said lawyers defending their clients would be arrested by him henceforth.

You can't chose which allegation you believe. Anyone who has been alleged of wrongdoing should be arraigned and allowed to defend himself or herself in an open court.

Noblesoul123:
This looks like a sponsored publication. The best thing that Magu should do is to prove his innocence in terms of the allegations contained in the Secret Report beyond reasonable doubt. Providing documentary evidence of flight manifest, title deeds of his rented house etc, will go a long way to help his case.

As for Premium Times It's very interesting that just two days ago, the Senate made public the reason for the non-confirmation of Magu based on a security report by the DSS and just two days later, Premium Times has conducted and concluded a report that exonerates Magu of any wrong-doing?
We are watching this show of shame

In this world they are intelligent clever people that can figure out things faster and better than others. Either you are not smart or you have a biased (corrupt within yourself). It doesn't even take a genius to understand that all this is fabricated by the DSS. Sahara Reporters ran a story month before that that DSS DG in collaboration with senate and some other government people like Kyari had an agreement to frustrate the confirmation of Magu because he is too though and appoint someone doll so that they can continue to eat the money. Check it up

I saw this coming, warned oga ibrahim that this present crop of senators will never confirm him. they are scared of what he will do to them, magu that sent alhaji bulama his inlaw, and former m.d of bank of the north to jail. i know the kind of pressure that was heaped on him to give bulama soft landing the bobo no just gree oooo.

adeaks:
The secretary to the government is corrupt.....embezzling money meant for people who have seen hell at the hands of Boko haram.

The chairman of the government's premier anti-corruption body is corrupt, hobnobbing with the people he is supposed to prosecute.

Amaechi has been accused by two supreme court justices of trying at various times to bribe them in a bid to get favourable judgments. The government never reacted to those allegations, and Amaechi still remains a minister.

Yet Buhari thinks he is fighting corruption.

So your point is that government should stop fighting corruption so we can go back to the free for all state of fiscal irresponsibility we were in with GEJ.
Are you just so blind to the sorry state that corruption has gotten is into both morally and physically as a people? What is wrong with us black people? I feel so ashamed with these type of comments.