Gunmen break into Magu, EFCC chair’s home, shoot police officer dead  

Some yet to be identified gunmen, Tuesday broke into to the Abuja home of the Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu and shot dead a police sergeant attached him the Cable reports

 The tragic incident was said to have occurred around 10pm. The attackers reportedly stormed the house located in the Karshi area of the federal capital territory (FCT), opening fire on the policemen there.

The police also returned with fire but it is not clear if some of the gunmen were killed or injured.

Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the anti-graft agency, could not be reached for comments on Wednesday morning as he neither answered his calls nor responded to a text message sent.

But Anjuguri Manzah, spokesman of the FCT police command, told The Cable to give him some time to find out about the attack.

“I am just hearing it from you. Please, give me time to make some findings,” he said on the telephone.

The attack on Magu comes less than 24 hours after he said anti-graft war is a do-or-die affair.

“For us as a country, the fight against corruption is a ‘do or die’ affair; we have to win the battle or die trying,” Magu had said at a rally in Abuja where the EFCC commemorated the World Anti-Corruption Day.

“The fight against corruption is now a war in which there is a clear line between forces of evil and those of good; between agents of progress and reactionary elements who mean no good.”