BUHARI'S NEW ORDER TO EFCC CHAIRMAN.

Buhari’s fresh orders to EFCC

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Our source(undisclosed)  was reliably informed by Aso Rock Presidential Villa sources that the
recent visits of the Chairman, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, to the seat of power, where he
was said to have had audience with Buhari, may be a pointer to the seeming micro-
management of the anti-corruption drive.
Although the source did not make full disclosures about what transpired at the private
meeting between the President and Magu, Sunday Vanguard was made to understand
that far from the allegation of tele- guiding the EFCC, “Mr. President wanted a very
clear picture regarding accountability and the exact amount of funds already recovered
from some of those who were said to be making refunds to the coffers of the Federal
Government of Nigeria”.
It was learnt that Buhari’s express orders to the EFCC boss was to the effect that the
funds already recovered must be accounted for.
Whereas this was not an indictment on the current leadership of the EFCC, Sunday
Vanguard gathered that some of the issues that were already subjects of controversy
even before Magu took over as the Commission’s boss needed to be sorted out.
Specifically, the activities of the EFCC regarding recovery of looted funds under Ibrahim
Lamorde, the immediate past EFCC boss, were brought into sharp focus.
Buhari has vowed that all stolen funds would be recovered.
The present wave of arrests and interrogation is not unconnected with this drive.
Indeed, Sunday Vanguard sources made it clear that since the EFCC, under Lamorde,
made some recoveries and seizures from some looters (which included properties),
there was need to account for “everything that went down”.
In fact, whereas Lamorde is out of the country, there are suggestions that he may “be
made to come back to the country to properly account for recoveries and sale of
properties that may have happened under his tenure”.