How Cabal Prevented President Buhari From Acting On Magu’s Probe Report Since Dec 2020

 

Cabals in the Presidency have schemed to ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari does not act on the Justice Ayo Salami’s probe report on immediate past acting Chairman of the Economic and Finan­cial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, submitted since 2020.

The Salami panel report was itself submitted in November 2020, but the details of the report nor its recommendations have not been disclosed to the public since then.

SaharaReporters learnt that one of the recommendations in the report was the replacement of Magu by a new chairman but other recommendations which indicted “powerful individuals” in the government were abandoned as the entire report might have been discarded.

Magu had been indicted in a memo to President Buhari by the Attorney-Gen­eral and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and then he changed into suspended in July 2020 and changed then via Mohammed Umar, the then EFCC’s Director of Operations.

Magu become then made to stand the presidential panel headed by means of Justice Salami, former President of the Court of Appeal.

The former EFCC chairman, all through his trial, had exposed several infractions dedicated by Malami, with the probe record believed to comprise extra damning evidence in opposition to pinnacle pictures inside the Buhari administration.

“The cabals across the President do now not need the document to be discovered to the public or acted upon because it's miles too indicting. Magu’s lawyers revealed sure information because the previous boss might now not go down on my own. Magu’s arms had been dirty however he became not the most effective perpetrator,” a pinnacle source revealed.

“President Buhari on December 4 had set up a 4-man committee to study the record of Salami on Magu. The committee is meant to present a white paper at the Salami report. Both the white paper and the record have neither been sighted nor acted upon,” the source added.

The committee is made up of  representatives from the office of the Chief of Staff to the President and two from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

This isn't always the first time that President Buhari would no longer act on investigative reviews regarding the EFCC based totally on manipulations allegedly from the AGF and different cabals.

SaharaReporters had on Thursday, February 18, said that a thirteen-web page research document by means of the EFCC, indicting the new Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who changed into then the Port Harcourt Zonal head changed into forwarded to President Buhari in 2019 but the President didn't study or act upon it.

SaharaReporters had acquired the report, titled, Re: Alleged Case of Conspiracy, abuse of office and criminal diversion of Federal Government Properties, in which the suspect changed into Abdulrasheed Bawa, and special how he was recommended for disciplinary movements.

It were pronounced that the report turned into forwarded to the President’s office, however the AGF stimulated the way it was dumped and no longer acted upon via President Buhari.

Malami had ensured that Bawa was spared and the erstwhile embattled appearing Chairman, Magu, was ousted from workplace earlier than actions might be taken on the file.

“The record changed into never read by way of Buhari due to the fact he turned into very blind to his environment and doesn’t read. That file changed into the whole info of Bawa, the newly nominated EFCC Chairman, as despatched to Buhari.

“The AGF additionally fast intervened and included up the crime by means of refusing to approve of expenses to be filed against Bawa and others. Magu become removed before he ought to act,” a pinnacle supply had found out to SaharaReporters.