Nigeria, July 7 -- The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned what it called the arbitrary arrest of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, by security agents in Abuja.

The group expressed "concerns" that the arrest was "the outcome of power-play at the highest levels of government."

PREMIUM TIMES reported Mr Magu's arrest Monday afternoon at the Wuse II office of the EFCC in Abuja.

He is reportedly still in police custody on the orders of a presidential panel investigating allegations of corruption and insubordination levelled against him by the Attorney-General of the Federation. Abubakar Malami.

Sources told this newspaper that the security agents to...