The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, said on Thursday that he was glad the Senate
refused to confirm him as the substantive chairman of the anti-graft agency.
Magu said if the Senate had confirmed him, perhaps he would
not have been able to perform as much as he had done.
The acting chairman said this before the Lagos State High
Court in Ikeja where he was testifying in a libel suit he filed against The Sun Newspaper.
Magu had sued publishers of the Sun Newspaper for a series of
publications which he described as libelous and injurious to his character.
The EFCC boss who sued the publishers before Justice
Doris Okuwobi claimed N5bn damages and also demanded that the The Sun Newspapers should publish an
apology and retract the alleged libelous publications.
Magu, under cross-examination by the respondent’s
counsel, Charles Enwelunta, said he was not worried that he had been rejected
by the Senate twice.
He said, “I have been rejected by the Senate twice and
it does not worry me that I’m not confirmed; I’m not bothered. It’s good that
they did not confirm me, I may not be able to work very well as we have been
able to get over 700 convictions.”
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