EFCC has revealed why they have not yet invited Goodluck Jonathan for questioning

The Ag. Executive Chairman, Economic and

Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim
Mustafa Magu, has explained why former
President Goodluck Jonathan has not been
invited over the armsgate scandal involving
Sambo Dasuki, a past National Security
Adviser.
Jonathan, according to him, has not been
invited because memos and documents
regarding the disbursement of the $2.1 billion
did not indicate that it was approved for
political campaign. He stated this today,
Monday 11 January during an interactive
session with online journalists in Lagos.
According to Magu, nothing will be left to
chance in bringing corrupt elements to justice,
whether the persons are highly placed or not,
adding that the extent of the looting of the
nation’s treasury was mind numbing. On
whether former president Goodluck Jonathan
would be invited over the Dasuki arms scandal,
he said
He said Jafar Isa who was arrested recently for
receiving N170 million from former National
Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), has
refunded N100 million and signed an
undertaking to refund the balance. He said in
spite of the refund, Isa would still be
prosecuted.
Magu also said Olisa Metuh, the National
Publicity Secretary of the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, said he would rather go
on hunger strike than refund the N400 million
he allegedly collected from Dasuki.
At the event it was also revealed that Patrick
Akpobolokemi, former boss of Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency,
NIMASA, was re-arrested recently outside the
Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, after new
evidences of alleged embezzlement of N34.5
billion and another N600 million were linked to
him when he was in charge of the maritime
agency.
He was said to have jumped bail and the lawyer
who stood surety for him had to be arrested in
his place until his re-arrest outside the court in
Lagos after he resisted their directives to return
with them to the EFCC office.
Magu said it was most unfortunate for anyone
to say that the war against graft was selective,
adding that his agency is not teleguided in the
ongoing anti-corruption fight.
He said EFCC cases drag in court because of
many court applications, adding that “when a
politician steals N10 billion, he keeps N5 billion
for litigation. He hires Senior Advocates of
Nigeria (SANs). Judges accuse us of not
conducting thorough investigation in order to
compromise.”
He said the anti-corruption war was a collective
war and advised the media to join EFCC to fight
the war whose victory would be for the benefit
of the next generation..