By our repoter| An Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa has told the Justice Ayo Salami presidential panel that he was procured to indict the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.
In a petition to the panel headed by the retired president of the appeal court probing the activities of the anti-graft agency under Magu, one Donald Wokoma, accused the suspended EFCC boss of attempting to extort him of N75 million through Giwa, his former lawyer.
Wokoma reportedly presented an audiotape of his conversation with Giwa in order to implicate Magu to the committee.
However, in a letter to the committee, dated August 15, Giwa alleged that he is a victim of Wokoma’s desperate attempt to nail Magu.
Giwa wrote, “I, Victor Giwa, request to provide additional information to state that the said information and petition was borne out of a desperate move of Donald Wokoms to lure me into indicting the Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu of the EFCC, with a promise that his money will be released.”
“My refusal was what has led to the presentation of an audio recording of client-lawyer conversation which is privilege information.
“I will be grateful if I am given the opportunity to give additional facts.”
Magu’s tenure as the acting EFCC chairman is being investigated by the Salami panel following allegations of corruption and insubordination levelled against him by the attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami.
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