Reps Issue Arrest Warrant on EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu

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The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant against the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, for refusing to appear before it.

The Committee had at different times invited Mr. Magu to appear before it on a petition by former first lady, Patience Jonathan.

It said that Mr. Magu should be arrested and presented before it on November 7, after his failure to appear before the panel despite several invitations.

Mrs. Jonathan had some of her accounts frozen by some banks following an investigation launched by the EFCC. But a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered that all the accounts should be unfrozen.

The former first lady consequently sent a petition to the House against the EFCC, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), among others, alleging harassment from them.

At the continuation of sitting on the petition in Abuja, the committee, which gave Mr. Magu up to October 4 to appear, lamented that the EFCC chairman was nonchalant on the matter.

The panel, chaired by Uzoma Nkem-Abonta (Abia-PDP), said it had sent several letters inviting the EFCC chairman to appear and clear the air on the directive the commission gave some banks to freeze Mrs. Jonathan’s accounts.

A member of the committee, Kingsley Chinda (PDP-Rivers), consequently moved that a bench warrant be issued against Mr. Magu to appear before the panel on the next adjourned date.

All the members of the committee present at the sitting supported the motion.

The chairman of the committee then ruled that a bench warrant be issued against Mr. Magu.

Meanwhile, the committee directed Mrs. Jonathan’s lawyers to sit with the managements of Zenith Bank, Eco Bank, First Bank and Fidelity Bank to address the issue of the court order asking the banks to unfreeze her accounts.

The committee also discharged Union Bank as it fully complied with an earlier directive to unfreeze Mrs. Jonathan’s accounts.

The committee had a fortnight ago directed all the affected banks to unfreeze Mrs. Jonathan’s accounts that do not have any pending court orders or official communication from the EFCC to do so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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