Afrigather Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), reported that Yahaya Bello, the previous governor of Kogi, withdrew $720,000 from the state’s funds for his little one’s faculty charges prematurely.
Talking in Abuja throughout a session with media on Tuesday, Olukoyede claimed that Bello transferred the quantity from the state’s funds to a foreign money change operator for the cost of his little one’s charges.
He talked about that Bello made this transaction anticipating the tip of his time period.
Olukoyede who inherited the investigation file, said that he didn’t begin the probe in opposition to Bello.
“A sitting governor, as a result of he knew he was leaving workplace, moved cash immediately from the federal government to bureau de change and used it to pay his little one’s faculty charge prematurely.
“Over $720,000 in anticipation that he was going to depart the federal government home. In a poor state like Kogi, you need me to shut my eyes underneath the guise of ‘I’m getting used’. Utilized by who? At this stage of my life,” the EFCC chairman mentioned.
On April 17, EFCC brokers surrounded Bello’s Abuja residence in a transfer to arrest him for an alleged N80 billion fraud.
In the course of the siege, Usman Ododo, the present governor of Kogi, stormed the residence and whisked away Bello.
Following these occasions, the EFCC issued a wished discover for Bello. The Nigeria Immigration Service has additionally positioned him on a watchlist.
The EFCC accused Bello, together with Alli Bello, Ododo’s chief of employees, and Daudu Suleiman, of misappropriating roughly N80.2 billion of Kogi’s funds.
