TOP SECRET: How Magu Exposed 500m Kyari's MTN Bribe To Buhari, And What Happened Next'll Shock You

247Ureports - Information available to 247ureports.com obtained from competent sources knowledgeable of the goings-on within the presidency indicate that the internal squabbles amongst aides to the President appear to be growing out of control. 

This is as it was gathered that it was the top boss at the foremost anit-graft body in Nigeria, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Ibrahim Magu that exposed the Chief of Staff to the President of the N500million bribe collected the telecom giant, the MTN to aide the reduction of the fine levied by the regulatory agency.

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Our source reveals that Ibrahim Magu who hails from the same tribe as Abba Kyari was the person who placed a telephone call to the President to inform him of the incident that occurred between the chief of staff and the executives of the MTN from South Africa. The telephone call from Magu was made while President Buhari was visiting New York for the United Nation’s conference recent. Magu placed the call informing the president and pointing to the available facts to back up his claim. 

Our source indicated that the President gave a cold reaction to the revelation. The President ended the call without the celebratory formalities and immediately placed a call to the chief of staff.

As the Chief of staff answered the call, the President went straight to the point. He asked Kyari if he collected bribe from the officials of MTN. Kyari did not deny that he did. He rather gave reasons as to why he did. The President hung up the call before Kyari could complete making his point. It was abrupt.

As the United Nation’s conference ended and Buhari returned to Nigeria, the relationship between the Chief of Staff and the President changed from warn to cold. News reports have it that Buhari began the search for a new chief of staff to replace Abba Kyari.

Source: 247Ureports

$15m probe: We’ll BOMB NNPC Headquarters If EFCC Arrests Dame Jonathan – Militant Threatens

The Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer Force on Wednesday vowed to bomb the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrests former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan.‎

The group accused the EFCC of witch-hunting Dame Jonathan, asking it to lift the No Debit Order imposed on her Skye Bank accounts.

The group in a statement by its spokesman, Parkinson George-Amabo, told the Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, that investigating Jonathan could result into “bad blood, embarrassment and possible unrest in the Niger Delta”.

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“As a matter of fact, the EFCC has launched a criminal investigation of Mrs. Jonathan and in the process, frozen her bank accounts domiciled with a Nigerian commercial bank without affording her opportunity to state her own side of the matter,” the statement read.

It went further: “Nobody is above the law. The NDPPVF does not support or condone corruption. If Mrs. Jonathan was found to be corrupt, we shall not hesitate to call for her prosecution.

“We, however, have a grouse with the modus operandi of Mrs. Jonathan’s investigation, given her status as the wife of a former deputy governor, former governor, former vice-president, former acting president and finally, former president. She is perhaps, the only Nigerian woman – dead or alive – with such an impressive and fortuitous pedigree; which accounts for why the EFCC needs to thread with caution.

“Recently, there have been calls on the attorney-general of the federation as well as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest and prosecute the former First Lady for alleged money laundering.

“We shall simultaneously bomb the 4 wings of the NNPC Towers the day it is announced that MRS. PATIENCE GOODLUCK JONATHAN has been arrested by the EFCC.”

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More Billions, 33 Assorted Properties RECOVERED From Jonathan's 'Army Thieves' (Chiefs) As They Apply For Plea Bargain

New Telegraph - The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has revealed that over N2 billion and 33 properties were recovered from three air force personnel.

The seizures were made from the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu; former Director of Finance and Budget, Nigeria Air Force (NAF), Air Commodore Olugbenga Gbadebo (rtd) and former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting in NAF, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun (rtd). The trio is presently facing a 26-count charge of fraud and money laundering.

New Telegraph learnt that the monies were recovered from various bank accounts linked to Amosu, Adigun and Gbadebo.

It was learnt that the properties include luxury apartments, hotels, shopping malls, mansions   parcels of land and ultramodern diagnostic centre located in highbrow areas of Lagos and Abuja.

Magu, who made the disclosure yesterday at the EFCC Ikoyi, Lagos office, during a tour of the commission’s detention facilities, added that it was shocking that just three men could steal such a stag  gering amount of money from public treasury.

Magu, who was represented by the Deputy Director of Operations, Mr. Iliyasu Kwarbai, said one of the properties is valued at N1.8 billion.

According to him, the total value of the 33 properties is over N12 billion. Magu noted that the three air force personnel are presently asking for plea bargaining. He said: “Plea bargaining lessens time wastage and money spent on prosecution. Usually, it’s the accused person that applies to the EFCC for plea bargain.

In the arms deal investigation, we recovered over N2 billion cash from three air force personnel. We also recovered over 33 properties from them. One of the properties is valued at N1.8 billion. “They have applied for plea bargaining. It means they have pleaded guilty.

The punishment will be mitigated and we’ll still recover some of Nigeria’s stolen assets and they’ll still serve punishment.” On the tour of the detention facilities, Magu said that the commission wanted to show members of the public how transparent the EFCC was. He said that suspects were never unduly detained, beaten or harassed.

According to him    presently, the Lagos Zone has just 22 suspects, including one female in detention.

His words: “We feed our detainees three times a day. We don’t beat or abuse suspects. We don’t box them. We don’t extort. We’re not armchair investigators. We go to banks and get our facts. Some of them insult us, but we don’t reply. We’re a group of professionals. All we want are answers to some questions. We confront them with facts and figures.” He disclosed that most suspects involved in high profile cases, easily fall sick once they are detained.

He said: “The moment we take them to our detention facility at Okotie Eboh in Lagos, they fall sick. They fall sick because they have been living in luxury with our collective stolen wealth.” Magu, who also conducted journalists and civil rights organisations round the EFCC clinic, said the facility was for both suspects and staff.

He said that once any suspect complains of ill health, the person would be taken to the clinic, where they have standby doctors.

If the EFCC doctors couldn’t handle the illness, the suspect is immediately referred to another hospital. The EFCC usually picks the bill for such medical expenses.

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EFCC Exposes New Tactics By Ex-Governors Under Probe To Cover Up; You'll Be Shocked At Their Dirty Plot

 In a desperate move to cover up for their dirty deal tract, the majority of the former governors who are either currently undergoing investigations or had been arraigned by the anti-graft agency for alleged corruption have been discovered to be plotting to infiltrate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by influencing the postings of some security operatives, who once worked with them during their tenure as governors, a fresh report by Punch Newspaper suggests

The former governors, it was gathered accordung to Punch Newspaper that, having failed to get the commission to either drop the cases against them or to frustrate the cases in courts, had come up with another strategy to make sure that they got hold of key aspects of the commission.

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It was learnt that the ex-states’ chief executive officers had started lobbying the police authorities and the Police Service Commission to post their former police aides to the EFCC as investigators.

The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, was said to have been surprised to discover that a former Aide-De-Camp to an ex-governor from a North-Central, who is undergoing trial for alleged corruption, was working at a sensitive position in the commission.

The aide, a Superintendent of Police (name withheld), was posted to the commission and was made an investigator.

When Magu was said to have learnt of the officer’s past, and since his immediate boss was undergoing trial for alleged corruption, the chairman was said to have ordered that the affected officer be transferred to the Police for reassignment.

Though the operative was not queried for any misconduct, the commission was said to have been worried that the police officer could be used by his immediate boss to truncate the case against him.

A very reliable officer at the commission said, “The commission was surprised to know that such officer, who was just leaving such a position, would find his way to such a sensitive post.

“There’s no way your former boss, whom you have probably been loyal and still loyal to, could be undergoing trial for corruption and you will help in nailing him.

“That’s why we have to send the officer packing and we have no regret in doing that.”

Because of the discovery, it was gathered that the commission was planning an overhaul of its investigators by carrying out discreet investigations about their past.

“We are investigating them in order to make sure that our officers and investigators are above board and have nothing to do with those being prosecuted or investigated for now,” a source at the commission said.

One of our correspondents gathered on Monday that the anti-graft agency was working on the theory that since there were many former governors still being tried by the EFCC, many of the accused persons might have influenced the postings of their loyalists, especially security operatives, to the commission.

It was learnt that the agency, after detecting the SP planted by a former governor of one of the states in the North-Central, had begun discrete investigations into its operatives, with a view to uncovering some who might have been used to infiltrate the agency by suspected looters.

A Nation In Search Of Sanity, By Goke Butika

"Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule" --Friedrich Nietzsche

Nigeria is being stratified into two major poles- they and us. Corrupt elite class and suffering masses, the enemies of change and change agents, the gullible masses and reasoning masses. That is the graphical situation of this polity called Nigeria. It has aways been there, but with this incorruptible Sheriff at the helm of affairs, the delimitation is clear.

It is no longer news that those who benefitted from the ruin of the country yesterday, have bought their way to the highest lawmaking chambers of the country today. Obviously, they are corrupt, but by crook or hook, they are the law givers; they have the powers to make obnoxious laws that are capable of dragging the country back for decades; they could conspire to initiate impeachment articles against President Muhammadu Buhari, even if they would fail in their plot, and true to type they did not disguise about their history and capabilities to create tension in the country.

Not to fall into the pit of ambivalence, I intend to look into the conflict of forces that are competing the soul of Nigeria, and find out where the equilibrium point could be marked. In the first premise, President Muhamnadu Buhari appears to have retooled the working of some institutions. The no-nonsense Military General turned politician believes that corruption would exterminate Nigeria, if Nigeria fails to eliminate corruption on time. So, the slumbering anti-graft agencies woke up rudely, dusted their files and went to work.

Before, I used think that institutions should not be built around personalities, but now, empirical evidences have shown that institutions are nothing unless they are driven by strong personalities. With Magu as the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), the devil himself knows that the fear of Buhari is the beginning of the wisdom.

However, there is a noise out there that the war against corruption is selective; that the target is the main opposition party, the embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and that Buhari was out to decimate the potentialities of the politicians on the platform against 2019 general elections. So, a war must be waged against the President. Amazingly, the narratives work magic as the deprived masses are also divided on the onslaught against corruption, for legions believe that the anti-corruption fight was a mere vendetta.

If the reason must prevail, we shall interrogate issues at stake. For the latest war in the senate, the narrative of the PDP senators was that the President was out to change its leadership they freely elected among themselves. So, the merit of the charge of forgery against the Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekeremadu does not appeal to them. And because the Attorney General of the Federation is pressing charges as recommended by the investigating Police team, Buhari should prepare for war.

The questions are: was the standing order of the senate used to institute leadership of the senate forged or not? Is forgery an internal affair of the senate or a criminal act? Was an investigation conducted by the police and recommendation made to the Attorney General? Must Attorney General press charges if there is prima facie? The answers to those questions are resounding Yes.

I watched it live on television where Senator Kabiru Marafa rose with a point of order to draw the attention of the senate to the forgery, and I am in the know that Senator Hunkuyi and others had approached the court for the same issue, but now that the office of Attorney General has woken up to his duties, some senators are threatening fire and brimstone. In a saner clime, such a senate ought to have gone into history; for people ought to have sacked them from the compromised chambers the very minute they pronounced corruption as their guiding principle.

Our country is in dire strait as a result of economic and social challenges, but must we gloss over a glaring case of corruption because we want to fix economy? I do not think so. I learnt that some section of the APC senators had countered their PDP colleagues on the issue, but it is a pity that the Senate President and his few scoundrels who see themselves as APC senators are working with the opposition underground to ground the country. That is the fall-out of the notion "I belong to everybody, I belong to nobody".

What more, the corruption is fighting back, and the masses who ought to know are divided by fallacy of ignorance. They have forgotten that for every one billion naira stolen, one million able bodied men with low income would not be paid salaries. I am aghast that in this very country, EFCC are apprehending yesterday's men who had stolen and sharing billions of US dollars, and they confessed to the sprawling stealing, yet some people who do not know where the next meal will come but take solace in partisan ludo are buying into the narrative of the thieves that the anti-corruption fight is a persecution of the opposition. What a people!

I am glad that despite this economic topsy-turvy, a strong man has emerged to follow his conscience and adhere to the rule of law irrespective of the deafening noise of corrupt elite class who want to eat their cake and have it. They formed what I called "they" and i am glad that large segment of the masses and some reasonable elite have keyed into the new order, forming what I see as "us".  However, vigilance is the watch word for any progress to be made.

Another interesting scenario is that of Governor Ayo Fayose, the boy scout of Ekiti state who treats the nation to tragicomedy on daily basis. He was fingered in the stealing of funds earmarked for arms meant to battle insurgency that has held the nation by the jugular, and instead of denying stealing, he claims immunity. Interestingly, his comrades in crime wanted his matter to be forgone. And that is one of the crimes of the President.

I am of opinion that the rebirth of Nigeria that is being undertaken by Buhari and his Vice Yemi Osinbajo must be encouraged, because we are all victims, the sons of victims and the future fathers of victims-apology to Nuhu Osahion.

Butikakuro is an intercontinental journalist.

Corruption Special Promotions For EFCC Chairman: Magu, Like Ribadu, Like Lamorde, By Ifere Paul

There is every reason to be sad about the recent special promotion given to Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, from Assistant Commissioner of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police by the Police Service Commission. Not only does the promotion violate extant rules, regulations and guidelines for promotions in the Nigeria Police Force, it's also going to undermine discipline in the Force, where officers morale is presently at very low ebb due to incessant special promotions given to juniors, far above their seniors. The special promotion to Magu also portends grave danger for the anti-corruption campaign. 

One of the mistakes of past administrations is the appointment of officers on the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police to head the EFCC. Although the EFCC Act allows for officers of this rank (retired or serving) to head the EFCC, representatives of the Force in the EFCC Board is stipulated not to be below the rank of an Assistant Inspector General of Police. This apparently shows the EFCC Act as defective, which also calls for an urgent amendment by the National Assembly. Only Farida Waziri was appointed as EFCC Chairman on the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police which she retired. The maturity she led the EFCC during her time before she was unceremoniously relieved of her appointment underscores the mistakes in appointing persons of lower ranks.

Nuhu Ribadu and Ibrahim Lamorde were appointed EFCC Chairmen as Assistant Commissioner of Police. Ribadu was later given special promotions to Assistant Inspector General of Police, while his course mates were still Chief Superintendent of Police and Assistant Commissioner of Police during his tenure as EFCC Chairman. Ibrahim Lamorde, who is currently a Commissioner of Police also has course mates languishing in the Assistant Commissioner of Police rank. It is apparent Ibrahim Magu who worked under Ribadu and Lamorde had learned from the duo how to do things wrongly.

One of the greatest mistakes of the present administration is appointing Magu as EFCC Chairman. His non confirmation more than six months after he was given an acting appointment in total violation of the Public Service Rules on acting appointment reveals that the government doesn't have confidence in him. Beyond media trials and cases the Presidency initiated or have interest, Magu has shown to be out of his depth in initiating ideas that will move the EFCC forward. Media trials, campaigns and road shows will not fight corruption. The Police Service Commission also has several petitions against its leadership Sir Mike Okiro and Acting Secretary Mr. Emmanuel I be lying fallow in the EFCC. Magu lobbying for, and receiving a special promotion from the Police Service Commission reveals that he had compromised their investigations.

The President should as a matter of urgency, remove Ibrahim Magu as EFCC Chairman. His opposition to the Money Laundering Bill by the President currently before the Senate points to the fact that he's not on the same page with the President in the anti corruption crusade. The President should also order the reversal of his special promotion and several others by the Police Service Commission in recent times for the interest of justice.

Ifere Paul is an activist and development consultant. He writes from China.

SHOCKER: Dubai Blocks Ex-Nigerian Governor's Transfer of $517m, Alerts EFCC

TheNews - An attempt by  a yet to be identified former Nigerian governor to transfer $517million out of United Arab Emirates to Dominican Republic has been blocked by the authorities.

A report today said  the former governor hit a brickwall because UAE money laundering laws are now strict.

Nigeria had signed a “Judicial Agreement on Extradition, Transfer of Sentenced Persons, Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters, and Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal and Commercial Matters, which includes the recovery and repatriation of stolen wealth”, in the course of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit last January.

In the spirit of the agreement, the Nigerian government has beamed a searchlight on banking vaults and properties where Nigerian officials had kept or invested their loot.

According to TheNation a Federal Government team, comprising the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu and crack detectives from the anti-graft agency, are in Dubai and have started comparing collated intelligence notes on the PEPs with their UAE counterparts.

The EFCC officials arrived in Dubai on Saturday, said the newspaper. The Minister left Abuja yesterday to join the team.

Seven former governors, six former ministers and a fleeing Presidential aide implicated in the $2.1billion arms deals, ex-military chiefs under probe, agents / fronts of some of these public officers and about five chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) have either stashed away funds in Dubai or acquired properties.

A top source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The Federal Government team has met with those from the UAE on intelligence sharing, the list of those on EFCC radar, the number of highly-placed Nigerians with fat accounts in UAE and those with choice properties in Marina (Dubai), Bur Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha.

”Some of the former governors include one from the South-South, two from Northcentral, two from the Northeast, one from the Northwest, and one from the Southwest.

“More than six ex-ministers and a former presidential aide, who is on the run over the $2.1billion arms deals, were said to have acquired choice mansions and malls in UAE. One of the former ministers, who was alleged to own two houses in Dubai, was said to have served as a front for a former First Lady.