Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is set to be promoted to the rank of
assistant inspector-general (AIG) this week by the Police Service Commission
(PSC), TheCable reports
Magu, who was promoted commissioner of police in 2018, had
been recommended for removal as EFCC boss by the Justice Ayo Salami panel,
which also asked that he be prosecuted over allegations of abuse of office.
The panel had specifically recommended that Magu should be
removed “for failing to properly account for N431,000,000.00 security
votes/information fund released to the office of the Executive Chairman of EFCC
between November 2015 and May 2020”.
He was also accused of causing “disappearance of evidence,
stoppage and suppression of cases under investigation and prosecution, and
omitting to arrest suspects” in cases involving a former deputy senate
president and a former MD of Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC).
Magu was further accused of supressing high profile cases
involving four former governors, one of whom is currently a senator.
The panel recommended that Magu should be referred to the
inspector-general of police for “necessary disciplinary action”.
However, since the panel submitted the report in November
2020, only a few of the recommendations have been implemented.
A new chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, was appointed in February
2021 while several police officers were recalled to the headquarters.
Magu, who has been in limbo since his probe by the panel, is
believed to be in the good books of the PSC chairman, Musiliu Smith, a former
inspector-general of police from Lagos state.
Some senior police officers are reportedly grumbling over
the failure to discipline Magu, who has always denied all the allegations
against him.
Recall that in August 2020, the panel, in its interim
report, recommended Magu’s sack and prosecution over allegations of corruption
and abuse of office.
Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation, had
petitioned the president, levelling allegations of corruption and
insubordination against Magu.
Magu was arrested on July 7, 2020, detained and suspended as
the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency.
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