The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has stated that some forces were trying to pull him down.
Magu further refuted the allegations that he was blackmailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointees or traditional rulers.
The EFCC in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said that some unscrupulous elements operating as social media soldiers were only trying to dent his hard-earned name and reputation on his purported non-confirmation by the Senate as the substantive chair of the EFCC.
The commission said the mission to bring down Magu was being sponsored by forces that were not comfortable with his campaign to rescue the nation from the grip of corruption.
The statement added, “In the last week or so, the social media has been awash with fictitious reports, all painting an uncanny picture of desperation by Magu over his purported non-confirmation as substantive chair of the EFCC, and of stricture within the rank and file of the EFCC workforce leading to resignations.
“One of such reports is the one making the rounds in several gossip blogs with the title, ‘How EFCC’s Magu and Sahara Reporters Peddle Lies to the Media’. The report which is a parody of disingenuous invention of falsehood is the handiwork of mischievous people hell-bent on causing disaffection between the Magu-led EFCC and the executive on the one hand, and the members of staff of the EFCC on the other.”
The statement added that, “The allusion to bullying and victimization of EFCC staff is clearly designed to instigate the staff of the commission against its leadership as there is no truth in it. For the records, no ‘senior EFCC core official’ has resigned from the commission and insinuation of mass resignation at the commission is mere scaremongering.
“The same applies to the claim that a sensitive unit has been set up in the commission to ‘bug the phone line’ of some persons. This is mischief taken too far!.”
Magu, on Tuesday described corruption as a crime against humanity, saying that before now there was no hope for Nigeria but that President Muhammadu Buhari had shown “demonstrable political” will to deal with corruption.
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