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Alleged fraud: Yari threatens showdown with EFCC

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July 7, 2017
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Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, on Thursday threatened to report the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, to the Federal Government.

His offence, according to the governor, was that Magu had been intimidating governors unnecessarily.

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The governor who spoke with journalists in Abuja said Magu was not doing a thorough job before dragging governors to court over alleged financial crimes.

“All it wants is for Nigerians to know it has invited a governor or that one former governor is arrested,” Yari said.

The governor denied as untrue, the claim by the EFCC that the Paris Club loan refunds were diverted on his instruction from the Nigeria Governors Forum account.

Said Yari:  “I am going to write to the federal government that enough is enough; that either the EFCC should do its work or we should ‘do showdown’ with them (EFCC) because nobody became governor to be intimidated, to be harassed, to be abused by a DCP.
“You can’t fight corruption that way and forever, they (EFCC) will not achieve anything.
“In the case of my humble self, I have no idea why the EFCC is actually interested in the issue of the London Paris Club refund. It has been on this since inception up till now. It has been repeating, contradicting so many things especially about personalities.
“So, if there is anything wrong there, it should approach the person whom it suspects did something wrong, and not to be making noise about it. I challenge the chairman of EFCC to open up and say if he has ever come to me and interviewed me about what happened.
“We didn’t commit any fraud. I am not a signatory to that account but I am the head. So, it is what governors agree that I, as chairman, append my signature on. So now, they are saying $86m fraud, N19bn fraud, $3m hotel; which one do we believe?”
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