Afrigather Senator Natasha Akpoti, lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District within the Nationwide Meeting who was alleged to have mobilised journalists to embarrass former Governor Yahaya Bello on the workplace of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC has lastly opened up on the saga.
Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, who by the way represents Yahaya Bello within the Senate, nonetheless, stored mum on the assertion of mobilising journalists to taunt the previous governor.
In an announcement on the weekend, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, nonetheless, recommended the efforts of the EFCC on the Yahaya Bello saga.
In addition to, she praised the EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede, for transferring 14 properties, initially forfeited to the federal authorities, to the federal government and other people of Enugu State.
Responding to Bello’s excuse for not honoring the EFCC’s invitation, the lawmaker whereas conserving mum on the declare of allegedly mobilising the media to hound the previous governor burdened the significance of the fee investigating different corrupt public officers to forestall the notion that their actions in opposition to the previous governor had been supposed as a witch hunt.
In a now-viral Replace, the EFCC chairman had claimed Bello instructed him {that a} feminine senator allegedly gathered journalists to humiliate him anytime he was on the company’s Abuja workplace for interrogation.
“I known as Yahaya Bello, as a former governor, to come back to my workplace to clear himself. I shouldn’t have achieved that. However he mentioned as a result of a sure senator had planted over 100 journalists in my workplace, he wouldn’t come.
“I instructed him that he can be allowed to make use of my personal gate to provide him a canopy, however he mentioned my males ought to come to his village to interrogate him,” Olukoyede was quoted as saying.
