Worry more about Magu than interim report, Salami tells Shittu
Ayo Salami, head of the Presidential panel probing Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has told Wahab Shittu, Magu’s counsel, to worry more about his client than the interim report of the panel.
President Muhammadu Buhari had set up a panel to probe corruption allegations levelled against Magu.
In its interim report, the panel, which recommended the sack of Magu and his prosecution, also recommended the appointment of a new chairman for the anti-graft agency “without further delay”.
But Shittu, who said the panel did not give his client fair hearing, had claimed that those recommendations were not made and accused the media of peddling falsehood.https://3c7a0f28d0f4932713242c43ccb98715.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
In a statement yesterday, Shittu said Salami refused the request that those who published the stories should be summoned by the panel.
Shittu also quoted Salami as saying he did not leak the interim report of the panel.
Quoting Salami, Shittu said: “The story arising from the so-called interim report is not from us. What should concern you and your client is what the chairman said. Inviting the promoters of the story will not serve any useful purpose as they will not disclose their sources of the story.”
Magu was arrested on July 6 and whisked before the panel by a combined team of Department of State Services (DSS) and officers from the force criminal investigation department, FCID, of the police in Abuja.
