Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has opened up on the role the anti-graft agency played in the return of, Abdulrasheed Maina.
Ibrahim Magu
While speaking with journalists at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Abuja, during a meeting on Thursday, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, absolved the Commission from any blame over the return of embattled former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.
Magu, who spoke at the meeting between the African Union delegation and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Olukunle Bamgbose in Abuja, was asked to comment on how Maina entered the country without the knowledge of the EFCC, initially said the issue of Maina should be reserved for another time.
According to Daily Sun, the EFCC boss, however, shifted ground, saying that the best the EFCC could do was to have declared Maina wanted.
He said; “We should reserve that for another time. We have done our best. We have declared him a wanted person. It is on our website. So, if you happen to come in… I think you should be reading, you should be reading.”
When asked to comment on efforts to unravel those behind the reinstatement of Maina into the Federal Civil Service, particularly, the Ministry of Interior, Magu said he would speak at the appropriate time. “No. At the appropriate time, I would make statement on this issue,” Magu declared.