EFCC has no issues with Nigerian musicians says Magu

The past few weeks have been the talk of Nigerian artistes Naira Marley and Zlatan Ibile, who were arrested by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for issues bothering on cyber-crime. This case has taken over twitter with several hashtags, taken over FB pages, groups and people’s timeline and is the talk in most IG posts and other social media platforms. 

 

In light of this occurrence, the acting chairman of EFCC Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday, May 22, invited stakeholders in the entertainment industry to the commission’s headquarter in Abuja, in a bid to allay their worries and reassure them that the commission does not have any personal vendetta against them.

Magu charged artistes, comedians, and others in the entertainment industry to join the anti-graft agency in the fight against corruption, especially internet crime, stressing the importance for them to lend their voices to the commission’s crusade against fraudulent activities. 

 

In a report, Magu was quoted to have said: “You have a very wide reach, so lend us your voices, please let your works propagate and promote integrity and the right values,” he said passionately, as he stressed that they remained key to winning the war against internet fraud, and corruption in general.

He said

I urge you to raise a collective slogan against all forms of criminality among our youths, condemn in strong terms, ostentatious living without credible sources of income, particularly the get-rich-at-all-cost syndrome among the youths.

The acting chairman further relayed the readiness of the crimes commission to collaborate with the creative industry in a bid to jointly wage war upon fraudulent online activities as well as other economic and financial crimes. He said: “I have always stressed that we cannot claim to have the monopoly of knowledge of how to fight corruption at the EFCC. We are, however, driven by the passion to explore all frontiers that will enable us to achieve a better society for our children yet unborn – an egalitarian society and one which we all can be proud of.”