Security Agency Feuds Threaten Buhari’s Graft War in Nigeria
- Financial crimes commission at odds with secret police
- Lawmakers haven’t approved Buhari’s anti-corruption czar
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When agents of Nigeria’s financial crimes body arrived this month to arrest a former intelligence chief fired by President Muhammadu Buhari for stashing $43 million in cash in his wife’s apartment, they were stopped by armed secret policemen.
After a 10-hour standoff, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission backed down in the upscale Asokoro district of the capital, Abuja, with its boss, Ibrahim Magu, vowing his agents would be back to arrest former National Intelligence Agency boss Ayodele Oke.