Afrigather Yahaya Bello, the previous governor of Kogi, has denied the allegations that he paid his youngsters faculty charges from the state’s account.
Bello denied the allegations in an announcement launched by his media workplace on Friday, stating that his youngsters have been attending the American Worldwide College earlier than he grew to become governor.
Ola Olukoyede, the chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), had earlier accused Bello of paying his youngsters faculty charges prematurely from Kogi’s coffers.
A number of paperwork circulating on social media additionally revealed how the previous governor paid $845,000 for his youngsters’s faculty charges.
Nevertheless, Bello has refuted these claims, saying that he didn’t pay the charges from the state’s account.
The assertion launched by his media workplace said that Bello’s youngsters have been college students on the American Worldwide College, Abuja, since earlier than his governorship, with charges paid promptly.
Opposite to allegations by the EFCC chairman, the previous governor stated that he didn’t pay $720,000 or $840,000 for varsity charges.
The assertion added that the price funds started in 2021, not on the finish of Bello’s time period as Kogi governor.
Based on the assertion, a authorized problem prevented the EFCC from recovering funds paid to the American Worldwide College Abuja, with the FCT Excessive Courtroom ruling in favor of Bello’s relations.
Paperwork associated to the price funds, launched on-line by the EFCC, had been public data filed by Bello’s legal professionals, the media workplace said.
“Now, let or not it’s recognized that, opposite to deceptive narratives by the EFCC, all of the paperwork printed on-line i.e. receipts and letters, that the EFCC has launched on-line, in furtherance of its unrelenting persecution of the previous Governor, are paperwork filed by legal professionals within the swimsuit instituted on behalf of Alhaji Yahaya Bello and others who paid charges for his or her wards below the Advance Charge Cost Settlement with AISA,” the assertion reads.
The legitimacy of the price funds is at the moment below judicial assessment in cost No. FHC/CR/573/2022 on the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Abuja, it added.
The assertion reminded events of the authorized precept of sub judice, urging restraint from prejudicial actions.
Bello’s workplace emphasised his adherence to due course of and the rule of regulation, stating that no quantity of blackmail would deter him.
“Lastly, our Principal, Yahaya Bello, doesn’t go to regulation enforcement companies “via the backdoor”. He has insisted on following due course of according to the rule of regulation. No quantity of blackmail will intimidate him,” it concluded.
