A human interest group has faulted the direction which the fight against corruption by the EFCC is taking, leveling accusations of partiality on the EFCC chairman.
Ibrahim Magu
A group identified as the Ekiti Justice Group, EJG, has described as “shameless falsehood” comment by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, saying the commission has not received any petition against chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Magu while trying to defend allegation of political witch hunt by the commission recently said, “Such accusations have come up a lot, but, we work with petitions before us, in fact, I am eager and waiting for something from the other side, but nothing has come so far.”
But, Daily Post reports that, the group in a statement by its national secretary, Ebenezer Olaleye said, “It is on record that petitions were submitted to the EFCC office in Abuja against former governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, by the State Government and concerned groups.”
Olaleye noted that it is on record that a group called, Save Ekiti Coalition, SEC, had written a petition dated September 26, 2014 to the commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, which was submitted in Abuja on September 29, 2014, adding that the state government even wrote a letter to the EFCC on September 2015, reminding the commission of its petition but nothing has been done.
He said, “It is a clear confirmation of EFCC partisanship for Magu to claim ignorance of the SEC petition duly received by the commission with attached documents on September 29, 2014,
“The EFCC chairman should rather come clean and tell Nigerians that under the President Mohammadu Buhari-led APC government, only those opposed to the federal government must be presented as corrupt while APC chieftains who are supporting the President can never be corrupt even if there is evidence that they stole their states blind.”