Happenings

By Dele Agekameh Ibrahim Mustafa Magu F or m any months, there was procrastination. Then, suddenly, a bombshell. On Thursday, last week, many Nigerians were shocked to the marrow when the Senate declined to confirm the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the country’s premier anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The vague reason the upper legislative chamber gave for this unpopular action was that its verdict was based on a security report forwarded to it by the Department of State Security, DSS. Magu replaced Ibrahim Lamorde as acting chairman of the EFCC on Monday, November 9, 2015. In July, eight months after he mounted the saddle in acting capacity, Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President, who was then acting for his principal, Muhammadu Buhari, sent his name to the Senate for confirmation as substantive chairman. At that time, Buhari was out of the country on a short vacation. Unfortunately, after a lot of dilly-dallying spanning o