Ex-Governors Under Probe for Billions now Planting former Aides in EFCC

Ex-governors are plotting to infiltrate the EFCC by influencing the postings of security operatives, who once worked with them during their tenure as governors, to the anti-graft agency. Majority of the former governors are either currently undergoing investigations or had been arraigned by the no-nonsense anti-graft agency for massive stealing of Nigeria's money.

The former governors, it was gathered, having failed to get the commission to either drop the cases against them or to frustrate the cases in courts, had come up with another strategy to make sure that they got hold of key aspects of the commission so as to kill their cases.

According to Punch findings, the ex-Governor had started lobbying the police authorities and Police Service Commission to post their former police aides to the EFCC as investigators. The Acting Chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, was said to have been surprised to discover that a former Aide-De-Camp to an ex-governor from North-Central, who is undergoing trial for corruption, is now working at a sensitive position in the commission.

The aide, a Superintendent of Police (name withheld), was posted to the commission and was made an investigator. When Magu learnt of the officer’s past, and since his immediate boss was undergoing trial for alleged corruption, the chairman was said to have ordered that the affected officer be transferred to the Police for reassignment.

The commission was said to have been worried that the police officer could be used by his immediate boss to truncate the case against him. A reliable officer at the commission said, “The commission was surprised to know that such officer, who was just leaving such a position, would find his way to such a sensitive post inside EFCC.

“No way your former boss, whom you have been loyal and still loyal to, could be undergoing trial for corruption and you will help in nailing him. That’s why we have to send the officer packing and we have no regret in doing that.” Because of the discovery, it was gathered that the EFCC was planning an overhaul of its investigators by carrying out discreet investigations about their past.

“We are investigating them in order to make sure that our officers and investigators are above board and have nothing to do with those being prosecuted or investigated for now,” a source said. It was learnt that the agency, after detecting the SP planted by a former governor of one of the states in the North-Central, had begun discrete investigations into its operatives, with a view to uncovering some who might have been used to infiltrate the agency by the Big Looters.