Forces opposed to the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive
head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday March 24,
released a new seven-page letter by the State Security Service (SSS)
expatiating on the corruption allegations against the anti-corruption
czar. the letter, which was circulated to select Nigerian journalists by
a faceless group, Advocacy Justice, was written by the SSS to the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar
Malami, to further push its relentless campaign against Mr. Magu. The
letter appeared to have been written in response to a request by Mr.
Malami that the SSS should provide documentary evidence of its
allegations against the acting EFCC chair. In its response, the SSS,
through one Folashade Bello, sent the minister at least 12 documents.
One of the documents contained minutes of the 20th plenary meeting of
the Police Service Commission in 2010 which reportedly reprimanded Mr
Magu. NAN gathered that the eleven other documents simply laboured to
link Mr Magu to Mohammed Umar, a retired air commodore being
investigated by the SSS.The statement affirms his ownership of Valcour
S.A. Nigeria Limited, a company awarded the contract of securing and
furnishing an official residence for Ibrahim MAGU by the FCTA.
Investigation revealed that this was facilitated after MAGU was earlier
shown the residence by,” a man the DSS claimed is a close business
associate of UMAR, who was introduced to MAGU by the former.The DSS also
presented what it claimed was a forged Memo which supposedly originated
from the Office of the Vice-President and addressed to Mr. President.
This was according to the report recovered from the private residence of
UMAR during a search operation by this Service. The document was a
request for approval to commence further investigation into the
financial activities of a serving minister from the Niger Delta. The DSS
also forwarded another annexure being a letter from the Office of the
Vice-President affirming that the annexure supposedly from the office
was a forgery.”Annexure E was a copy of “Progress report with reference
number SH/COS/24/A/7277 dated 25th May, 2016 on NNPC/NLG Brass
Investment Accounts in Nigerian Commercial Banks from Chief of Staff to
Mr. President, Abba KYARI to the Acting EFCC Chairman. The letter is an
official/classified document of the EFCC which was duly received by the
Commission as indicated by the stamp on the document. However, it was
recovered at UMAR’s residence.This letter appeared to have been
circulated to further embarrass Mr. Magu and possibly pressure President
Muhammadu Buhari to remove him from his post.
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