BEVERLY HILLS, August 07, (THEWILL) – The embattled suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, is still on the hot burner as more petitions of criminal nature keep pouring in. The latest is that of an Abuja based lawyer who accused him of using his investigators in the agency who are infamously known as ‘Magu boys’ to demand N70 million bribe from him
In the petition, the lawyer alleged extortion and criminal intimidation by ‘Magu boys’, claiming they unlawfully and illegally froze accounts of a company, Damjay Integrated Services Limited with access bank in 2018, without any valid court order.
Magu has been undergoing probe following a constitution of a panel headed by Justice Ayo salami to investigate the recovery of assets by the EFCC under him as well as alleged misconducts and embezzlements leveled against him by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
The latest petition was as a result of his refusal to obey a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) order by Justice O. C. Agbaza on November 21, 2018 who declared his action as unlawful, illegal and ordered him to immediately unfreeze the said bank account.
The petitioner said that he was bewildered that instead of complying to the court order, Magu chose to use ‘his boys’ to intimidate and try to coerce him to bribe them with N70 million.
“Magu boys instead of obeying the court order which was never appealed decided to act as intermediaries to the company and allegedly demanded N75 million from the account as a condition for lifting the illegal restriction.”
The petitioner further revealed that the said “Magu boys”, sent three different bank accounts namely Cikin Gida Nigeria Limited with account number: 1771773211, at Polaris Bank; Black and Black Global Concept Limited with account number: 0259011841 with Gtbank and Amina Kigbu with account number: 2176716071 with Zenith Bank for the payment of the alleged bribe.
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The petitioner claimed that the alleged Magu boys gave directives that the said N75 million bribe be paid in three tranches of N25 million into the three accounts they provided, a request which was turned down by the company leading to trumped up criminal charge filed against the company’s sponsor by EFCC.
“It is the aggregation of these ordeals consisting of abuse of investigative powers, extortion, unlawful seizure of a citizens property and flagrant disobedience to order of the court that impelled our client to instruct that the instant petition be tabled before you now that Mr President is desirous of sweeping the EFCC clean and restoring sanity.”
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