EFCC chairman, Magu gets support from unlikely quarters

Support for the confirmation of the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu is coming from an unlikely place.

The National Chairman of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) Dan Nwanyawu, on Thursday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to send Ibrahim Magu to the Senate for confirmation as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

Nwanyawu, who made the call while addressing journalists said that the good works of Magu in acting capacity was a justification for the call. “Let me join all well-meaning Nigerians to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to, as a matter of urgency, send Ibrahim Magu’s name to the Senate for confirmation.

“That will give him more teeth to pick those he has not picked in the past four years; nobody will run away from this,” he said.

Nwanyawu recalled that more than N700 million proceed of cybercrime was recovered from the Kano zone by the EFCC under Magu’s watch.

He said that similar recoveries were made in Edo, Delta and Enugu zones which was now reversing the perceived bad image of the country.

The chairman said that nobody should engage in crime because of hardship, saying that the names of Nigerians published by the FBI affected innocent citizens who believed in the country.

He said that the EFCC under Magu’s watch had uncovered fraud in the power sector.

He blamed bad roads, epileptic power supply and the state of basic infrastructures in the country on corrupt leaders in office.

Nwanyawu said that Magu should be allowed to finish the job and clear economic and financial crime in the country.

He said that politics should not be brought into EFCC as the fight against corruption”is the most successful programme of Buhari’s administration”.

He said that he had stood for the chairman confirmation of Magu as EFCC boss when the cabals and some power bloc stood against it.

The chairman said that he was speaking out as someone who had been monitoring activities of the commission and as a patriot.