Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), states Yahaya Bello, previous guv of Kogi, withdrew $720,000 from the state’s coffers to pay his kid’s school charge ahead of time. Olukoyede spoke in Abuja on Tuesday throughout an interactive session with media executives. The EFCC manager declared that the previous Kogi guv moved cash from the state coffers to a bureau de modification operator, and utilized the cash for his kid’s school cost ahead of time. Olukoyede included that Bello made the payment in anticipation that his period was slowly pertaining to an end. “A sitting guv, since he understood he was leaving workplace, moved cash straight from the federal government to bureau de modification and utilized it to pay his kid’s school cost beforehand,” the EFCC manager stated. “Over $720,000 in anticipation that he was going to leave the federal government home. In a bad state like Kogi, you desire me to close my eyes under the guise of ‘I’m being utilized’. Utilized by who? At this phase of my life.” Olukoyede stated he acquired the case file of the previous Kogi guv, keeping in mind that he did not start the examination versus Bello. On April 17, EFCC operatives laid siege on Bello’s home in Abuja to jail him over declared N80 billion scams. While the EFCC operatives were at Bello’s home, Usman Ododo, guv of Kogi, concerned visit his predecessor. Quickly after Ododo left from the house, the EFCC operatives likewise left your home. Bello was supposedly saved by Ododo when he left his home situated in the Wuse Zone 4 district of Abuja. Consequently, the anti-graft company stated the previous guv desired. The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has actually likewise put Bello on a watchlist. The anti-graft company declared that Bello, together with Alli Bello, chief of personnel to Ododo; and one Daudu Suleiman, diverted about N80.2 billion coming from the Kogi federal government.
Yahaya Bello took $720k from state coffers to pay his kid’s school costs– EFCC Chairman
