Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, Facebook
Head of Nigeria’s anti-graft body Ibrahim Magu has urged the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adamu Abdul-Kafarati, to transfer all the lawsuits challenging his appointment as the EFCC boss from Justice Binta Nyako.
The lawsuits are 11 in number and they have all been consolidated before Justice Nyako.
However, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in a letter dated July 31, by his lawyer, Wahab Shittu, said he would love the cases taken away from Justice Nyako for fear of conflict of interest.
Magu said he was uncomfortable with Justice Nyako handling his cases at a time when the anti-graft agency was prosecuting the husband and stepson of the judge – Admiral Murtala Nyako (retd.) and Senator Abdulaziz Nyako, respectively.
Shittu pointed the CJ’s attention to Magu’s letter of July 30, saying the application for the transfer of his cases had become necessary “to avoid bias and conflict of interest because the commission is prosecuting the spouse and stepson of His Lordship, namely: Admiral Murtala Nyako (retd.) and Senator Abdulaziz Nyako, respectively.”