Eight months after the Senate failed to screen the Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the anti-graft agency, the legislate body is now set to screen him.
The screening will come up on Wednesday at plenary.
Senate President Bukola Saraki disclosed this at plenary Tuesday.
The upper legislative chamber had three months ago refused to screen Magu as substantive chairman of the EFCC, claiming that its action was based on a security report by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The Senate, however, gave approval for the screening of the four members of the EFCC board whose names were sent alongside Magu by then Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo for confirmation in July last year while President Muhammadu Buhari was away on medical vacation.
The DSS security report, among others alleged that Magu is occupying a N20 million per year accommodation, allegedly rented for him by someone under EFCC investigation; lives a flamboyant lifestyle and flouted the President’s order against public officers flying first class when he went on pilgrimage.
But in a letter to the Senate in January, President Buhari re-nominated the anti-graft chief for the position.
