Group Threatens To Shut Down Senate If Magu Is Not Confirmed As EFCC Chairman

The Forum of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has threatened to shut down the Senate for rejecting the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Rising from an extraordinary emergency meeting of its National Co-Coordinating Council, the forum also noted that the overwhelming majority of the senators who spearheaded the assault on Magu are under various stages of investigation for acts which verge on criminality and corruption.

The group said in a statement: ‘The Senate obviously relying on an obsolete, recycled and unsubstantiated report by the Directorate of State Security Services (DSS), went after the EFCC boss, who has since assumption of office taken the President Muhammadu Buhari anti-corruption campaign to the next level.

“The public lynching of a genuinely motivated public officer who has given his all to cleansing the Nigerian augean stables to effectuate in a more stable polity is tantamount to an attack on the person and personality of the occupant of the high office of the president of the republic.
“The misguided and ill-motivated diversionary attacks against the presidency must stop given that the three coordinate organs of government taken together, constitute one integral system.