EFCC Chair: Magu Deserves Compensation – Lawyer

With the door closed against the return of Ibrahim Magu as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), his lawyer, Tosin Ojaomo has said that Magu deserves compensation for the injustice meted to him.

Speaking on Channels TV – ‘Politics Today’, Ojaomo lamented damage done to integrity and reputation of his client and others suspended at the EFCC.

The Federal Government had set up a presidential panel led by Justice Ayo Salami to investigate the suspended acting chairperson of the anti-graft agency.

He said: “Suddenly, no report came out, and another appointment was made… Justice has clearly not been done in this matter, to Magu, we are talking about people’s integrity, reputational damage has been done to people,” he said in justifying the claim that Magu deserves compensation in the form of justice for the injustice supposedly meted to him.

“It is not just about Magu alone, there are other people at the commission that have been suspended, all these people, their integrity is now at stake as if their matter is a forgotten matter.

“When it comes to issue of justice, the words of Justice Oputa always come to my mind, who talked about issue of justice, he said justice is a 3-way traffic; justice to the complainant, justice to the accuser and to the society..

In articulating the case that Magu deserves compensation in the form justice, he said:

“In this matter, justice has not been served to the Nigerian people because everyone was expecting to know the outcome of the investigation. There was a lot of news in the media about Magu, and people have now been put on suspense.

He said the appointment of a new Chairman for EFCC does not mean the report of the panel indicted Magu.

“It would be speculative to say the report was not in Magu’s favour, ordinarily, inquiries have been conducted in this country, and reports have been released and people have been able to make their own independent judgement from the report of the investigation but in this case, an investigation was conducted, and report was not released, everything was just media reportage that people are relying on.

“At least this is what they call government should be accountable to the people, the government should let us know the reason for this indecision.”

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