Magu stated this on Sunday in Abuja at an award ceremony hosted by the Northern Female Students Association in his honour.

The EFCC chairman stated that his exit from the anti-corruption agency could be linked to corrupt individuals prosecuted during his tenure.

Magu, who was represented by his son, Mohammad-Saeed Ibrahim-Magu, expressed delight that recent events have revealed the truth to Nigerians.

“I am a victim of corruption fighting back, but I am happy that recent events are revealing the truth to Nigerians,” he said.

The former EFCC boss thanked the association for conferring on him the award of “Achiever par Excellence’’ and said he was happy to receive the award.

Recalls that Magu was arrested, detained, and suspended as the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency in July 2020, after he appeared before a panel probing allegations of gross misconduct.

The panel, led by Justice Ayo Salami subsequently recommended his removal “for failing to properly account for funds released to the office of the Executive Chairman of EFCC between November 2015 and May 2020”.

Magu exonerated of money laundering charges

On October 4, Justice Yusuf Halilu of the FCT High Court cleared Magu of a false claim that Pastor Emmanuel Omale of the Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministry and his wife, Deborah, laundered N573 million for the former EFCC boss.

The money was said to have been used by the cleric to purchase a property in Dubai for Magu.

The judgement was issued in the case FCT/HC/CV2541/2020, which was filed by Omale, his wife, and the church against the church’s bank.

During the investigation of Magu by the retired Justice Isa Salami-led presidential investigation panel, it was claimed that an investigation by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit revealed that Magu paid N573m into Omale’s church’s account.

Justice Halilu noted in his judgment, however, that the evidence before his court showed that Omale’s bank admitted error in its report to the NFIU, of entries in Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministry’s account.

The judge further held that the bank claimed that the purported N573m was wrongly reflected as credit entry into the church’s account by its reporting system, which it recently upgraded.

Justice Halilu noted that the bank admitted the error, which occasioned incalculable damage to the reputation of Pastor Omale, his wife and their church within and outside the country.