The Acting Chair of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Mustafa Magu, is alleged to have taken his anger out on one of his lieutenants.
The EFCC acting boss has been reported to be desperately working to be confirmed as the substantive chair of the anti-graft commission.
Sources within the EFCC believe this has further unsettled their boss who is not trusting any one at the commission. They say the latest person to feel Mr Magu’s wrath was a Senior Officer, among the new Senior Police Officers.
Insider say Mr Magu is playing the blame game. The Deputy Commissioner of Police got into a physical war of words with an officer he had brought into the Anti-graft agency recently to head the EFCC Academy, Abuja.
EFCC sources present said Kaigama Bunu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP was so vexed, he walked out of the commission.
The most paramount reason for the grievance between Mr Magu of EFCC, and the Commandant ACP Bunu, is simply an accumulated acrimony.
Some staff members say that “the Commandant had queried why the anti-graft agency’s boss moved the training of newly recruited cadets out of EFCC Academy, Abuja to Nigeria Air Force Training Institute, Kaduna State.
They say the move was accuring unnecessary cost to the anti-graft agency more in terms of finance, owing to the current recession.
Accordingly, another source also say “the Commandant was disturbed, by the huge sum of over N500m which Mr Magu spent without prudence in just few months, despite the existing ‘International World Class EFCC Academy Abuja’, upgraded by the Ex-EFCC Boss Mrs Farida Waziri.
This it was said, angered Mr Magu of EFCC. The Borno indigiene began to use obscene words on the commandant, due to his “power drunkenness.”
You will recall that part of the complaints given by some of the EFCC Core Managerial Staff for resigning, was the “I Know It All” syndrome of Mr Magu. And the way and manner in which he bamboozes the Staff into doing the wrong thing and later denying them.
Insider say Mr Magu is playing the blame game. The Deputy Commissioner of Police got into a physical war of words with an officer he had brought into the Anti-graft agency recently to head the EFCC Academy, Abuja.
EFCC sources present said Kaigama Bunu, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP was so vexed, he walked out of the commission.
The most paramount reason for the grievance between Mr Magu of EFCC, and the Commandant ACP Bunu, is simply an accumulated acrimony.
Some staff members say that “the Commandant had queried why the anti-graft agency’s boss moved the training of newly recruited cadets out of EFCC Academy, Abuja to Nigeria Air Force Training Institute, Kaduna State.
They say the move was accuring unnecessary cost to the anti-graft agency more in terms of finance, owing to the current recession.
Accordingly, another source also say “the Commandant was disturbed, by the huge sum of over N500m which Mr Magu spent without prudence in just few months, despite the existing ‘International World Class EFCC Academy Abuja’, upgraded by the Ex-EFCC Boss Mrs Farida Waziri.
This it was said, angered Mr Magu of EFCC. The Borno indigiene began to use obscene words on the commandant, due to his “power drunkenness.”
You will recall that part of the complaints given by some of the EFCC Core Managerial Staff for resigning, was the “I Know It All” syndrome of Mr Magu. And the way and manner in which he bamboozes the Staff into doing the wrong thing and later denying them.
This was seen in a more recent of this type of scenario, which staff say was the public embarrassment which unfolded between Mr Magu of EFCC and the said ACP Bunu, who is the head of the EFCC Academy, Abuja.
Insiders say “Mr Magu of EFCC had through his usual way, tried to alter the activities of the Commandant on the ongoing training of New Cadets of the Anti-graft agency. This, Magu intends to do by pushing for his “Recruitment Lobbying List Candidates” to be endorsed into a training gone far. He was told by the Officer, that this will amount to bringing out half-baked Cadets. But Magu in his usual way, insisted and a fracas ensued”.
Also, others say “Magu had ordered that Female Candidates be subjected to physical examination by Male Staff. This case went viral, such that it drew attention of many to the kind of EFCC recruitment being carried out under Magu’s reign. Even though, the Anti-graft agency’s boss had through the spokesman, deny the allegation and claimed it was those candidate who could not pass that are spreading such rumour. But truth is, that was the actual incident that happened at the Nigeria Air Force Training Institute, Kaduna State”.
An Inspector of Police, who craved anonymity, say “I wonder why Magu of EFCC would speak to the ACP in such a manner, when even as per Intelligence and vast knowledge, the Commandant is too sound compare to the Anti-graft agency’s boss, who barely reads a ‘Prepared Speech’ on different occasions, nor could he be articulate in public outings.
Another staff say “We sensed that Magu of EFCC was being too power drunk, that he barely want to allow staff do their work. Instead, he(Magu) prefers to verbally tell you what to do without proper documentary instruction. So that at the end of the day, when things go bad or Chips are down due to his wrong ideas, the Officer is sacrificed for him to own and protect his (Magu’s) image”.
A text message was sent to the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren for a comment on the public disagreement between Magu of EFCC and ACP Bunu. Though, at the time of filing this report, there was no reply from Mr Uwujaren.
Source: abusidiqu.com
