The Presidential Investigation Committee on the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has agreed to give the suspended Acting Chairman of the antigraft agency, Ibrahim Magu, a report to enter his Defence, after awaiting a copy of the claims against him.
The report is that of the Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Assets ( PCARA), which contains all allegations against Magu.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, however, extracted a commitment from the counsel to Magu, Barrister Wahab Shittu, saying that PCARA’s report will not be leaked to the press.
Magu, who said all the allegations against him were false, is expected to open his defence today.
Reports say that the suspended EFCC chairman was at the panel’s venue for about eight hours but he had a brief encounter with the team.
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Magu took a 78-page response to the committee, bordering on a query by the AGF, PCARA’s report and other allegations in the public domain.
The committee, however, said it may accept Magu’s response only after serving him the issues in PCARA’s report.
A top source said:
After waiting for hours, the panel met with Magu for a few minutes. The committee later decided to make a copy of the PCARA report available to Magu to enable him to address all the allegations against him.
It, however, gave a condition that PCARA report must not be leaked in any manner to the press to avoid distraction of its activities.
With the concession by the panel, Magu will now open his Defence from Thursday or thereabout. He will be able to tender his defence which has not been accepted by the panel because the allegations were yet to be served on him. This is a good dimension.
A letter, which was written to Salami’s panel by Magu’s counsel, Wahab Shittu, however, promised that the suspended acting EFCC chairman will cooperate with the panel.
In the letter, Shittu said Magu had not at any time challenged the mandate of the panel or engaged in any boast or queried the panel.
