Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has been suspended by the Presidency.
Magu was arrested on Monday by a combined team of Department of State Services personnel and policemen at the Wuse II office of the EFCC to face an interagency committee investigating corruption allegations against him. Ibrahim Magu
He was detained at the FCID in Area 10, Abuja, on Monday night on the orders of the committee that also questioned him on Tuesday morning.
A source in the Presidency confirmed to SaharaReporters that Magu has now been suspended pending when a decision will be taken on him.
The ongoing power tussle in Nigeria exacerbated with the death of chief of staff Abba Kyari who used to act as president while the mentally absent Buhari slept. With Kyari’s death it is now a free for all fight as the new Chief of staff, Ambassador Gambari lacks the capacity to become the new defacto president.