Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that Ibrahim Magu does not need the Senate’s confirmation as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to function in that position.

Osinbajo who spoke at a media parley with journalists organised by the Presidency’s Office of Digital Engagement at his residence in Abuja, quoted Section 1, sub-section 71 of the Nigerian constitution as “evidence that the government need not even have produced Mr. Magu to be cleared by the Senate at all.”

Rather than dissipate energy on Magu’s Senate clearance and talks about recent losses of anti-corruption cases in courts, the vice president prescribed “a mix of both legislative and constitutional reform to improve the work of the judiciary” and decried the “current system whereby lawyers can appeal to prolong court cases, almost indefinitely.”