The National Chairman of Zenith
Labour Party (ZLP) Mr Dan Nwanyawu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to
send Mr Ibrahim Magu name to the Senate for confirmation as the Chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).
Nwanyawu, who made the call while
addressing journalists on Thursday in Abuja, 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 Mr 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 said that intelligence
had it that some people were moving around and had even interviewed some people
to take over from him, NAN reports.
The chairman said that the
activities of such people would truncate the current effort of the EFCC in the
good fight against corruption.
He said that in the past few
months, the activities of EFCC had been on the front burner.
Nwanyawu recalled that more than
N700 million proceed of cyber crime 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 perceive
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.
He said that ”anybody who is
opposed to corruption and stealing of public funds should toe the same line.”
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