{"id":41370,"date":"2020-07-10T17:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=41370"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:21:20","slug":"why-buhari-suspended-magu-malami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/why-buhari-suspended-magu-malami\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Buhari\u00a0 Suspended Magu -Malami"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami said on Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Malami, in a statement by his media aide, Umar Gwandu, said the President&#8217;s action was <span id=\"yiv8993551954yMail_cursorElementTracker_1594381510958\">to allow for unhindered inquiry by the Presidential Investigation Panel under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act and other relevant laws.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"yiv8993551954yMail_cursorElementTracker_1594381523057\">He added:\u00a0<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0 President Muhammadu Buhari has also approved that the EFCC Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar, should take charge and oversee the activities of the Commission pending the conclusion of the ongoing investigation and further directives in that regards.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami said on Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-41370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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