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I’ll continue to fight financial impunity, Magu vows

By Odita Sunday
24 July 2019   |   3:55 am
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said he would continue to fight financial impunity, vowing that perpetrators of corruption would not go unpunished.

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said he would continue to fight financial impunity, vowing that perpetrators of corruption would not go unpunished.

In a live programme yesterday in Ilorin, Magu, represented by Head of the Kwara Zonal Office of the commission, Isyaku Sharu, said: “The fight against corruption is not about religion, it is not about your tribe, it is not about political parties, it is for the interest of all Nigerians and for the future of our great country.”He lauded the people of the state for their support of the agency’s anti-graft war.

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