Gunmen attack Magu’s house, kill one policeman

A police sergeant attached to the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been killed on Tuesday after some gunmen broke into the house of the anti-graft boss in Karshi area, Abuja.

Confirming the attack in a statement made available in Abuja on Wednesday, the EFCC’s Head, Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said that the attackers stormed the house located in the Karshi area of Abuja, opening fire on the policemen guarding the residence. The

policemen were said to have returned with fire but it was not cleared if some of the gunmen were killed or injured. According to Uwujaren, the unidentified men murdered a police sergeant on duty.

He added that the incident was the second such attack on the same farmhouse. The statement reads in part, “While the Commission will not speculate on the motives for the attack or the sponsors, it wishes to state that the EFCC under the leadership of Ibrahim Magu will not be deterred in its mission of ridding Nigeria of corruption”. The attack on Magu is coming less than 24 hours after he said anti-graft war is a do-or-die affair.

“For us as a country, the fight against corruption is a ‘do or die’ affair; we have to win the battle or die trying,” Magu had said at a rally in Abuja where the EFCC commemorated the World Anti-Corruption Day. “The fight against corruption is now a war in which there is a clear line between forces of evil and those of good; between agents of progress and reactionary elements who mean no good,”Magu added.