Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
Another allegation has been made against the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.<\/p>\n
This was contained in a petition on alleged extortion and criminal intimidation by some persons believed to be \u2018Magu Boys\u2019.<\/p>\n
Magu Boys were a team EFCC officials who allegedly acted on behalf of the former chairman.<\/p>\n
One of those who confirmed the existence of the squad was former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani.<\/p>\n
The former lawmaker accused Magu of running \u201ca cult\u201d which operated with impunity.<\/p>\n
He said contrary to \u201cthe facade, the EFCC has been run by an inside cult called \u201cthe Magu Boys\u201d or \u201cthe Chairman Squad. They are a select cream of vicious and cruel officers who operate exclusively and with impunity and only report directly to their boss.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe inside cult is the dark and immoral aspect of the agency engaged in persecution, blackmail, frame-ups and cruelty. The cult has been the wheel behind the ordeal of their embattled Boss. Until they are rooted out from the agency also.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a petition by an Abuja-based lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, Magu and the boys were alleged to have unlawfully frozen accounts of a company, Damjay Integrated Services Limited in Access Bank.<\/p>\n
PRNigeria reports that the petition dated July 28, 2020 was received in the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) on July 29, 2020.<\/p>\n
It copied the Justice Ayo Salami-led panel investigating the recovery of assets by the EFCC under Magu, along with the High Court judgment.<\/p>\n
Jideobi claimed that following the refusal of the bank to unfreeze the account, Magu and EFCC were dragged before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/p>\n
He recalled that Justice O. C. Agbaza on November 21, 2018 declared Magu\u2019s action as unlawful, illegal and ordered him to immediately unfreeze the said bank account.<\/p>\n
Magu was alleged to have bluntly refused to comply with the order of the court despite no appeal against the judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: Another allegation has been made against the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu. This was contained in a petition on alleged extortion and criminal intimidation by some persons believed to be \u2018Magu Boys\u2019. Magu Boys were a team EFCC officials who allegedly acted on behalf of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":28351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[68,794],"class_list":["post-28350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-efcc","tag-magu"],"yoast_head":"\n