Apparently sensing that the Presidency may keep him in detention
indefinitely until he answers Allegations Made Against Him By The
Attorney-General, embattled Acting Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, may go on hunger
strike.
Vanguard gathered, on Thursday, that some politicians and
other wealthy Nigerians and foreigners, who alleged that they were
duped by Magu and some operatives of the EFCC, are said to have started
forwarding petitions on how they were coerced to part with huge sums of
money and property under the guise of recovering ill-gotten wealth.
Magu,
still being interrogated by the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential
panel along with seven of his aides, reportedly got into trouble after
information got to the Presidency about some of his dealings both in and
outside the country.
The informants, according to sources, gave
detailed information that prompted a shocked Presidency to immediately
order his arrest, while the presidential panel was set up.
According
to sources, people in rarefied circles of power, in and outside the
country put together the details and delivered to the Presidency,
prompting his arrest.
A Presidency source, Thursday night, said
that Magu may not be released from detention until he responds
satisfactorily to all allegations against him.
The source told
Vanguard: “You are aware that they (detectives) have searched his house.
Detectives that carried out the search combed his house. It was after
the search that they arrested seven of his aides as part of the probe.
“Justice Salami is simply carrying out stern instructions from the Presidency over the issue of Magu and it
was after he discovered that it will be virtually impossible to grant
him bail that Magu started threatening to go on hunger strike, with a
view to drawing public sympathy.
“However, it was learned
that when the Presidency got information about his plans to go on
strike, in insisted that the embattled EFCC acting chairman will not be
released until he returns all the money he was accused of
misappropriating.”
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