The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has alerted the public to alleged sinister plot to link him to ownership of assets abroad.
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Magu’s alarm was contained in a statement the anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren released on Wednesday.
It said persons under the investigation of the anti-graft agency were behind the alleged scheme, and their aim was to tarnish the image of the anti-corruption czar.
The statement reads in part, “Those behind the plot, which is believed to be part of a grand design to discredit the anti-graft czar, have allegedly finalised plans to name Magu as the owner of choice properties in exotic locations abroad.
“The commission has information that the desperate cabal could take their gambit to the ridiculous extent of purchasing properties and registering them in the name of Ibrahim Magu to make the plot believable.
“They are also prepared to sponsor some political hirelings who would come out openly to claim they have information about the property acquisitions.
“The commission, however, wishes to alert the public that Magu has no interest in any property whatsoever outside Nigeria.
“He has neither bought a house anywhere outside Nigeria nor commissioned any person or corporate body to acquire property in his name or any name remotely linked to him.
“The latest plot is coming many months after the commission similarly raised alarm over plots by some interests to pay humongous sums into Magu’s accounts with a view to releasing the information as evidence he had been compromised.”
