The director of operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar has been named the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency.
Umar takes over from Ibrahim Magu who was on Tuesday suspended by the president, Muhammadu Buhari following an ongoing investigation into his activities as EFCC boss in the last five years.
Magu was arrested on Monday and whisked to the presidential villa in Abuja where he was grilled by a panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to probe his term at EFCC.
Ayo Salami, former president of the appeal court is heading the presidential panel probing Magu.
Magu is expected to tell the panel what he knows about discrepancies between sums recovered from alleged looters and what was recorded in the books. Magu is also accused of selling off property confiscated by the Commission to friends and cronies.
The attorney general and minister of justice, Abubakar Malami who is the supervising minister for the agency also accused Magu in a memo to President Buhari of insubordination.
RootsTV earlier reported that security agents searched the residence of Magu in Karu, in the outskirts of Abuja on Tuesday while his personal belongings were moved out of his official residence in the Maitama District of Abuja. The officials carted away some official documents that would help investigators.
The suspended EFCC boss has spent the last two nights in detention.
