The lawmakers said that Magu should be arrested and presented before it on November 7, 2017 after his failure to appear before the panel despite several invitations.
The House of Representatives has issued an arrest warrant against the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu.
The warrant was issued on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 by the Committee on Public Petitions for Magu's refusal to appear before it.
It
was further gathered that the Committee had severally invited Magu to
appear before it on a petition by former first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan.
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| Mr Ibrahim Magu. |
The panel, chaired by Hon Uzoma Nkem-Abonta,
said that Magu should be arrested and presented before it on November
7, 2017 after his failure to appear before the panel despite several
invitations.
Patience Jonathan had some of her accounts frozen by some banks following an investigation launched by the EFCC.
But a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered that all the accounts should be unfrozen.
The
former first lady consequently sent a petition to the House against the
EFCC, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), among others,
alleging harassment from them.
At the
continuation of sitting on the petition in Abuja, the committee, which
gave Magu up to October 4, 2017 to appear, lamented that the EFCC
chairman was nonchalant on the matter.
Hon Uzoma Nkem-Abonta
said it had sent several letters inviting the EFCC chairman to appear
and clear the air on the directive the commission gave some banks to
freeze Mrs Jonathan’s accounts.
A member of the committee, Rep Kingsley Chinda
( PDP-Rivers), consequently moved that a bench warrant be issued
against Magu to appear before the panel on the next adjourned date.
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