{"id":196154,"date":"2020-02-23T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196154"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:04:36","slug":"magu-didnt-say-corruption-caused-coronavirus-efcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=196154","title":{"rendered":"Magu didn’t say corruption caused coronavirus – EFCC"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says a section of the media has been trying to twist comment by acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, at the Passing Out Parade of its Detective Inspector Course 5 cadets.<\/p>\n

The event was held at the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, in Kaduna on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.<\/p>\n

Magu, during his speech at the event, clearly said: \u201cI strongly believe, Your Excellency, that even coronavirus is caused by corruption\u201d.Footage of the comment has been circulating on the internet has drawn criticism.<\/p>\n

But on Sunday, EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, in a statement, insisted that Magu didn\u2019t mean it that way.<\/p>\n

He quoted Magu as saying: \u201cYour Excellency, corruption is worse than cancer, Ebola-virus, Corona-virus and all other deadly diseases put together. Fighting corruption is thus a crusade against the evils of our society that are deeply-rooted and threatening to consume us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orilade stated that the EFCC \u201cis appalled by the fact that a section of the traditional and the New Media has been obsessed with a campaign to impugn and irritate the Commission\u2019s boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be noted that we have restrained ourselves from joining issues in a certain section of the media in the light of what Magu said on Corona-virus, but we are now constrained to issue this clarification because we least expect a medium like one of the national newspapers to join in the fray.\u201d<\/p>\n

EFCC added that the war against corruption is on course and the commission will not be distracted in eliminating corruption in Nigeria.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says a section of the media has been trying to twist comment by acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, at the Passing Out Parade of its Detective Inspector Course 5 cadets. The event was held at the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, in Kaduna on Tuesday, February 18, 2020. Magu, during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,866,10109],"class_list":["post-196154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-efcc","tag-magu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}