Senate Postpones Magu’s Screening

The Senate, yesterday, said that the confirmation hearing of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, will hold on December 15, a day after the budget presentation by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Na’Allah, while addressing Senate Correspondents after plenary in Abuja, said the new date was chosen so that senators who are on oversight functions across the country would be in attendance.

The Presidency had six months ago forwarded a letter to the National Assembly nominating Magu as the substantive chairman of the anti-graft agency.

It would be recalled that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, had announced at plenary on Wednesday that the confirmation hearing would hold yesterday, after five months of delay.

However, the Senate did not list the confirmation in the Order Paper for yesterday’s hearing, hence, placing Magu’s confirmation pending.

Moreover, officials of the EFCC led by the acting Chairman, Magu, were at the Senate, yesterday, waiting to be called for the hearing which never came.