EFCC Vs Saraki: We Do Not Witch-Hunt Anybody Says Magu

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said its re-opening investigation on the President Bukola Saraki is not a witch-hunt.

According to him,  the commission only invites people it suspects of corruption-related crimes.

Speaking to newsmen today, after receiving an award at the commission’s conference room at its headquarters in Abuja, Magu noted that the reopened case was not targetted at attacking Saraki.

” It is not personal, we are not after anybody. His case is not different from other individuals that are being investigated.” he said

The Outstanding Leadership in Public Service award was presented to him by the Euro Knowledge Group, Premium Times reports.

The EFCC Boss said the commission does not witchhunt any government official irrespective of their political background.

“The EFCC does not pursue people who do not have corruption cases. If you are not corrupt, we do not invite you. If you are not a 419 or internet fraudster, we would never invite you.

“We do our homework very well. Sometimes we conduct our investigations for up to six months, we have been investigating people for more than five years.

“Corruption is a national disaster, every Nigerian should fight corruption, whether you are in Nigeria or outside the country. You remove corruption, you eradicate disaster. All these banditries and Boko Haram, the root is corruption,” he said.

The EFCC had allegedly marked some properties at 15a, 15b and 17 MacDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos allegedly belonging to Mr Saraki, on Sunday.

Reacting through a statement on Sunday by his media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Mr Saraki said the agency was only investigating what it had once probed.

Mr Saraki tagged the agency as being ‘mischievous.’

The recent effort by EFCC to probe Mr Saraki started when the agency wrote a letter to the Kwara State Government for a breakdown of his income and entitlements as governor of the state.

The anti-graft agency urged the former Kwara state governor not to be shaken “so long as he has no skeletons in his cupboard.

Meanwhile, Naija News reports that the EFCC’s Acting Head, Media and Publicity of the commission, Mr Tony Orilade noted that he does not have any information on the alleged seal-off of houses belonging to the outgoing Senate President.