Despite outstanding issues concerning his confirmation, the embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, will be allowed by the Senate to defend the budget of the agency.
Emabttled EFCC boss Ibrahim Magu to defend agency budget
Senator Chukwuka Utazi, the chairman, Senate Committee on Anti- Corruption and Financial Crimes, said that the committee would maintain the status quo by inviting Magu to the defend the 2017 budget estimate of the commission on the ground that he remains the acting chairman of the commission, Vanguard reports.
He said:“We are going to maintain the status quo, we are going to invite everyone, we are going to invite the acting Chairman of EFCC, Magu; he is still the acting Chairman of EFCC. Until he is removed, we will invite him for the budget defence and at the moment, he has not been removed.”
“A letter was written to the Senate by President Buhari on Magu, a decision has not been taken on him, it was not referred to any committee or my committee for further actions, the letter was not even discussed, no decision was taken on it, it is not administrative, there must be resolution or reference to any committee in the Senate before actions are carried out. We will invite him for budget defence.”
The upper chamber was yet to take a decision on the re-submission of Magu for confirmation by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Doubts over the possibility of Magu appearing to defend the budget proposals of the commission arose after some senators and stakeholders raised issues with the fact that the president stuck to Magu as acting chairman of the commission even after the Senate stood down his nomination on the basis of security report submitted by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Meanwhile, Senators have set three conditions President Buhari must meet for the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
One of the conditions is a report from President Buhari containing a fact-sheet on how he arrived at his decision to re-present Magu.
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