Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has raised alarm over
the activities of some fraudsters using his name to extort money from
governors, Ministers and national chairmen of top political parties in the
country.
Exposing how they operate, Magu
disclosed that those con men writes invitation letters to political office
holders informing them that they were under probe.
Magu, who raised the alarm in a
Facebook post on Tuesday, consequently warned political office holders to be
watchful so as not to fall victims.
The anti-graft agency while
dissociating itself from such letters, insisted that Magu had neither written
nor mandated anyone to write any invitation letter to any state governor
because they belonged to the category of officials that enjoy constitutional
immunity from criminal prosecution while in office.
The post reads, “For the
umpteenth time, the EFCC is constrained to alert the public to the activities
of fraudsters who have been extorting money from prominent office holders,
including sitting governors, ministers, and national chairmen of leading
political parties, using the name of Ibrahim Magu, the acting chairman of the
commission.
“Members of these criminal gangs,
from available information, have been writing invitation letters to some
politically-exposed persons on the pretext that such communication emanated
from the office of the acting chairman of the EFCC.
“The commission has had cause to
issue public disclaimers of such fraudulent letters, still the criminals are
undeterred. The situation is made worse by the fact that not all recipients of
such fraudulent invites had the courage to seek clarification.
“The commission urges this
category of public officers to be circumspect and verify the authenticity any
supposed invitation from the acting chairman of the EFCC in order not to be
ensnared by fraudsters.
“Also, there have been instances
in the past in which fraudsters cloned the email and Facebook accounts of the
EFCC chairman and were sending messages demanding bribes from unsuspecting
members of the public.”
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