DAILY NEWSPAPERS REVIEW SUNDAY MARCH 21ST 2021

ARMS FUNDS: REPS TO GRILL SERVICE CHIEFS, IGP, OTHERS MONDAY – PUNCH PG.3

The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on the Need to Review the Purchase,

Use and Control of Arms, Ammunition and Related Hardware by Military, Paramilitary and Other Law Enforcement Agencies in Nigeria has invited the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; service chiefs and other heads of paramilitary agencies. The security and service chiefs are to explain the procurement and deployment of arms and ammunition in their respective agencies.

UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDS MAGU’S REDEPLOYMENT, NINE MONTHS AFTER SUSPENSION- PUNCH PG.5

The erstwhile acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, is still idle, four months after the  Justice Ayo Salami probe panel submitted its report to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). According to findings by Sunday PUNCH, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has yet to redeploy Magu, a Commissioner of Police, nine months after his suspension from office.

IT’LL BE INJUSTICE, IMPUNITY NOT TO RETURN IBORI LOOT TO DELTA — OKOWA’S AIDE – PUNCH PG.9

What is the position of the Delta State government on the Ibori loot that has now been repatriated?

Many people have spoken about it but negotiation is still on. We as a government have told them that the money belongs to Delta State and it should be given to us. That’s our position.

Delta State government once shied away from claiming the fund, now many people are of the opinion that it cannot turn around to lay claim to the funds, what changed?

It is not true. If you were following the event, the only time the state government talked about money not missing was the time when it had to do with £15m, which was a stand-alone matter, not the general loot. This is a different matter entirely.

PROTESTS GREET EFCC ASSET DECLARATION ORDER TO BANKS – NATION PG.5

Bankers under the aegis of the Association of Senior Staff for Banks, Insurance and other Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) and National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFE) say the anti-graft should focus on the managing directors of banks and other agencies of government instead of the junior workers. The new EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, had last Tuesday announced that the Commission would from June 1 be demanding the asset declaration forms of bankers.

FALANA: EFCC CAN MANDATE BANK MDS, EXECUTIVES TO DECLARE ASSETS – THISDAY PG.76

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the provisions of all laws relating to economic and financial crimes, Africa’s leading human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has said. Consequently, according to the senior advocate, the anti-graft commission is empowered to cause investigations to be conducted into the properties of any person as stipulated under Section 7 (1) (b) of the EFCC Act, 2004.