A former Assistance Director with the Department of State Service, Dennis Amachree, has said the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu was arrested because he was not reporting to the constituted authority.
Amachree disclosed this on Tuesday, on ChannelsTV’s Programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’.
He added that the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) remained the supervising authority over the EFCC just as the Department of Justice oversees the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States.
The former DSS official disclosed that the AGF, Abubakar Malami, is the wrong person that Magu has engaged within a battle.
He clarified that Magu was arrested by the policemen attached to the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department and not the DSS as it was widely reported.
Amachree said, “I think Magu has some blame on his side. Apparently, he was operating as a law unto himself. He must be reporting to somebody. Even in the US, the FBI reports to the Department of Justice. In Nigeria, EFCC ought to report to the AGF who is now the originator of the allegations.
“When this thing came up, they knew he may not want to come, I don’t know, but he was stopped on the way to another meeting but they said he must go before the panel. He was accosted by policemen from the FCID.
“However, because they were policemen in plain clothes, many people thought it was the DSS.”
Since Monday, Magu has been responding to about 24 allegations leveled against him in police detention.
He is expected to face the Presidential panel today again to answer more questions.
