CCB Set To Prosecute Ibrahin Magu Over Dormant Account And Port Harcourt Property

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) will charge Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting executive of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CTC) any second from now, TheCable gets it. 

As per sources aware of everything, Magu is to be arraigned for purportedly neglecting to list a financial balance in his resource affirmation structure. TheCable comprehends that the First Bank account had not been worked by Magu for a very long time and gone torpid. 

The CCB has likewise recorded a property in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, supposedly possessed by Magu as a feature of the proof to be utilized against him at the court. Magu had recently been blamed for claiming properties in Dubai, Lagos and Abuja — yet it presently shows up there is no substance to the charges. His group has kept up that he claims just one house and it is in Karu, a suburb in the government capital region (FCT). 

"We thought they said he claimed houses in Dubai and Banana Island yet now it is an apparition property in Port Harcourt that is being connected to him," a colleague TheCable. 

Magu, who was named acting administrator of the EFCC in 2015 and was never affirmed until his suspension in July 2020, had been welcomed by the CCB to address inquiries on his resource revelation. This came at the time he was additionally being examined by the Justice Ayo Salami board, which has now suggested his sack and arraignment for supposed defilement in office — a claim Magu has reliably denied. Magu neglected to show up before the CCB, refering to his absence of admittance to the archives being mentioned. 

In an explanation gave on Sunday, Wahab Shittu, advice to Magu, rejected that the suspended administrator evaded the authority. The following is the full content of his assertion. 

Our consideration has been attracted to certain media reports where it was accounted for that our customer, the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, disregarded the greeting of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). 

We wish to express that our customer didn't disregard the CCC greeting as the media reportage didn't mirror the genuine situation of the story. We wish to state with high feeling of obligation that we have composed 2 letters to the Chairman of the CBB, suggesting him about the powerlessness of our customer to approach the important archives as needed by the CCB. 

The letters, which were dated November 16 and 17, 2020, were routed to the CCB Chairman. The letters were named Re: Investigation of Activities-Letter of Invitation, Breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers. If it's not too much trouble note that the letters were stepped and recognized by the workplace of the CCB Chairman on the said date of November 17, 2020. We likewise wish to express the said letters were replicated to the Director of Intelligence, Investigation and Monitoring while the letters were additionally stepped and recognized by his office. 

Clarifying the failure of our customer to respect the greeting, we expressed as follows: 

"Your letter dated November 2, 2020 with reference No.- CCB/HQ/II and M/007/2093 routed to our customer has been passed unto us to react to as follows: 

"In the alluded letter, our customer was mentioned to show up before your recognized body on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 11am brief concerning the above topic. We have firm guidelines to advise your recognized body that our customer, unfortunately won't have the option to respect the present greeting taking into account certain conditions outside his ability to control. 

"Our customer's failure to respect your greeting is because of his powerlessness to get to his office and the mentioned archives since his suspension from office. We wish to illuminate you that the reports which you mentioned for and other individual archives are as yet in his own office where he has been denied admittance state-of-the-art. The applicable records include: 

1. Affirmation slips of every one of Magu's resources revelation to the Code of Conduct since he joined Public assistance. 

2. Duplicates of his Appointment Letter, Acceptance, Records of Service and payslips from January to May, 2020. 

3. All title archives of his landed properties both created and lacking. 

"We demand that the solicitation to our customer be expanded forthcoming the finish of the activity of the order of the official Judicial Commission of Inquiry set facing our customer and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This solicitation has gotten essential since a large portion of the archives mentioned by your Bureau, were taken out from our customer's workplaces by the Department of State Security Service (DSS) and the solicitation of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry without our customer while our customer was in confinement. 

"In view of the prior, it would be inconceivable for our customer to address your inquiries and give those archives which are in the ownership of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry and the Department of State Security Service (DSS). We in this manner generously demand your recognized body to thoughtfully stretch out the greeting reached out to our customer forthcoming the arrival of our customer's archives (which you mentioned). 

"We further wish to illuminate you that we are composing a letter to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry, mentioning it to guide the Acting EFCC supervisor to permit our customer admittance to the pertinent reports. If you don't mind note that there is the requirement for our customer to approach the significant reports to plan for his safeguard to your greeting. 

"In the conditions, until such when our customer accesses his own records in his office where the vast majority of the mentioned archives are, it is unreasonable to respect your greeting, regardless of whether our customer is happy to do as such as a loyal and enthusiastic resident. 

"Much obliged to you fully expecting your collaboration in the above respect. It would be ideal if you acknowledge our expert respects." 

Yours Faithfully, 

Marked 

Wahab Shittu, Esq