Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, said the ongoing investigation of the
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, is not personal. He said this while
receiving the award for Outstanding Leadership in Public Service by Euro
Knowledge Group.
“No, no, it’s not personal. I am not after anybody. Please,
I don’t want you to personalise this. It is not different from other
investigations we are doing,” he said.
When asked to comment on the statement by Saraki that he was
being witch-hunted, Magu said “never. “You invite people who have committed
a crime, people who are corrupt. “If you are not corrupt, you are not here. “We
do our homework very well: sometimes we conduct preliminary investigations for
up to six months and such persons won’t even know we are investigating them,”
Magu said.
He described corruption as “a national disaster and mother
of all evils. “If you remove disaster (corruption), you have a peaceful
country.” He said banditry, Boko Haram nuisance and other crimes were “caused
by corruption and sustained by corruption. “It is been funded by stolen and
laundered funds, that’s why it is being sustained.” The acting chairman,
however, said that if corruption was tackled, banditry and kidnappings would be
sorted out.
