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REVEALED! Why EFCC cannot look into DSS purse

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REVEALED! Why EFCC cannot look into DSS purse

You have no powers conferred on you to investigate the spending of the State Security Service. And if he (Magu) has a problem, he should have gone to the sitting DG (Daura) to say I have a problem with your former DG….


 

Mr Mike Ejiofor, former Director of the Department of State Security (DSS) on Saturday explained why the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) cannot beam its anti-corruption searchlight on the financial details of the agency.

Ejiofor, disclosed this during a television interview following a clash between the men of EFCC and the DSS recently.

Mike Ejiofor, former Director of the DSS

“You have no powers conferred on you to investigate the spending of the State Security Service. And if he (Magu) has a problem, he should have gone to the sitting DG (Daura) to say I have a problem with your former DG,” he said.

The former Director of the Department of State Security’s comments came hours after the Senate had quizzed EFCC’s Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu and Director-General of SSS, Mr Lawal Daura.

Both men were invited to explain the roles played by their operatives when EFCC attempted to arrest a former DSS boss, Mr Ita Ekpenyong.

Ekpeyong, who served as the head of the DSS from 2010 to 2015, had been invited by the EFCC for his alleged role in the arms scam involving a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd.), and other service chiefs who have since been arraigned.

While admitting Magu’s view that nobody is above the law, Ejiofor stated that the anti-graft agency, however, ought to follow some ‘due process’ in its planned arrest.

He also advocated ‘special’ protection for both serving and former heads of the DSS owing to them being in possession of classified information.

“Don’t also forget that this man, the former DG and previous DGs, not this one, in particular, are custodians of very vital information and the need some protection, even out of office.

“So I don’t see how the Chairman of EFCC or EFCC on its own can go and obtain a warrant. You cannot put something or nothing, that has been my position,” he said.

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