Tag: Justice Ayo Salami

Breaking! Salami panel recommends Magu’s sack

Aminu Imam

Emerging report has revealed that the sack of Ibrahim Magu, as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who is a a police commissioner, has been recommended by the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Investigation of Ibrahim Magu, headed by Justice Ayo Salami panel. The Justice Ayo Salami panel, which submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari today, also requested the president to appoint the new EFCC chairman in an interim position for two years. The panel also recommended that President Buhari should also look outside…

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I don’t regret heading Magu’s probe panel – Justice Salami

Ishaku Yohanna

A former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, has denied expressing regrets for accepting the appointment to chair the panel investigating Ibrahim Magu, suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Magu is being investigated over allegations of abuse of office and mismanagement of recovered assets from May 2015 to May 2020. In a memo on Tuesday, Salami accused the lawyers of planting reports in the media that he regrets chairing the panel. He said, “The reports were a figment of the wild imagination of…

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