The Acting Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, yesterday tendered evidence
before the presidential committee investigating the discovery of $43.4m and
other currencies totaling about N15bn in a residential apartment at Osborne
Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
had made a claim to the funds.
The three-man investigation committee
headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is enquiring into the circumstances in
which the NIA came about the money, how and by whose or which authority it was
made available to the NIA, and to establish whether or not there had been a
breach of the law or security procedure in obtaining custody and use of the
funds.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on
Wednesday ordered the probe and suspended the NIA Director-General, Ambassador
Ayo Oke, pending the outcome of the investigation.
Magu yesterday appeared before the
panel comprising the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and
the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno.
Rising from the Vice President’s Wing
of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja where he briefed the panel, Magu
was sighted clutching documents tightly.
The EFCC had been summoned to furnish
the committee with information on the circumstances surrounding the discovery
of the money. Magu had, alongside the Director-General of the Department of
State Services (DSS), Malam Lawal Daura and the Inspector-General of Police,
Ibrahim Idris, earlier appeared before the probe panel Thursday.
The anti-graft agency boss declined
comment when approached by State House correspondents yesterday.
A Presidency source told Daily Trust
that the documents Magu submitted to the committee were “evidential enough”.
The source, however, refused to give an insight into the nature of information
provided by the EFCC boss.
The committee is also investigating the
allegation of violation of the law and due process made against the suspended
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, in the award of
contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North-East.
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