Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr
Ibrahim Magu has Denied being the hitman of Ibanga Akpabio, younger
brother of former Governor Godswill Akpabio.
Akpabio had in a video that has now gone viral, claimed that the Acting
EFCC chair is his hitman whom he can deploy to deal with his political
opponents.
But in a swift reaction, Magu in a press statement denied any link with
Akpabio, describing the comments by Akpabio in the video as “patently
false” and mere “braggadocio.”
The statement reads:
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been
drawn to a recorded audio conversation attached to a report with the
caption, EFCC Detains Brother of Former Akwa Ibom State Governor Ibanga
Akpabio, which appeared today, November 2, 2016 on the online news portal,
Saharareporters allegedly featuring two Akwa Ibom politicians, Ibanga
Akpabio and a certain Osong.
In the said audio recording, a voice purporting to be Akpabio could be
heard dropping the names of some security chiefs including the acting
Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu and boasting about the supposed
EFCC boss’ willingness to help deal with his purported political
adversaries in Akwa Ibom state, especially a certain Robinson Uwak.
The Commission wishes to state that the claims in this tape especially as
it affects Mr. Magu are patently false. The EFCC boss has never met Ibanga
Akpabio all his life and could not have been party to any violent scheme
to settle unknown political scores in Akwa Ibom State. Indeed, if Magu
were Akpabio’s Man-Friday as he would have his ‘friend’ believe, he would
not today be a suspect answering to charges of fraud before the
Commission.
Members of the public are therefore enjoined to disregard the recorded
conversation as plain braggadocio