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| Ibrahim Magu |
Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has disclosed that the agency
was indeed probing and collating evidence against former president, Goodluck
Jonathan and other accomplices in the arms purchase scandal. He stated this
when he visited the office of the BBC Hausa service in London at the weekend.
Asked when Jonathan would be
asked to appear at the EFCC, Magu said: “Anybody that is involved in this
scandal, we will invite him. It is only that we have to first establish our
evidence. Anybody who is guilty, I swear, we will summon him wherever he is.
Anybody that we invited, we must have finished with our background study on
him. We spend not just days for the background work but months until we
establish the case before we issue invitation. That is why none of the people
we invited has come out clean. Whoever stole public funds and we establish our
evidence, I’m telling you we will invite him, without cover. That is how the
work is. We compile dossiers of proofs and facts before we invite.”
Questioned on amount recovered
by the EFCC under him, Magu responded: “Because of what is going on, I can’t
tell you the exact amount we have recovered so far. But we are still collecting
the monies. I can’t tell you for now, but what we have recovered within this
period alone, was never recorded since the establishment of the EFCC in 2003. Actually, what we recovered is way beyond that
figure. I don’t want to let it out now. On 29th May, we will disclose every
detail and Nigerians will know what we have done,’’ he said.