EFCC: Yahaya Bello withdrew $720,000 from govt story to pay small one’s college bills

Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Crimes Charge (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has alleged that the feeble governor of Kogi Grunt, Yahaya Bello, withdrew the sum of $720,000 from authorities story to pay the faculty bills of his small one.

According Olukoyede, Bello wired the money to a Bureau de Alternate (BDC) operator to pay his small one’s college bills in approach.

The revelation came after the EFCC declared the feeble governor wished.

“A sitting governor, resulting from he knew he used to be leaving place of job, moved money straight from the authorities to Bureau de Alternate and old faculty it to pay his small one’s college payment in approach,” the EFCC boss mentioned.

“Over $720,000 in anticipation that he used to be going to switch away the authorities house. In a dejected narrate take care of Kogi, you want me to shut my eyes below the guise of ‘I’m being old faculty’. Used by who? At this stage of my existence.”

Olukoyede mentioned he inherited the case file of the feeble Kogi governor, noting that he did no longer provoke the investigation in opposition to Bello.

Bello had earlier mentioned he used to be consuming to seem forward of the Federal High Court in Abuja to answer to the 19-depend trace the EFCC, preferred in opposition to him.

Even supposing Bello used to be absent for his arraignment, Olukoyede briefed a team of lawyers who addressed the court docket on his behalf on Tuesday, April 23.

A member of his upright team, Adeola Adedipe (SAN) suggested the court docket that his client would absorb made himself on hand for the court docket cases, nonetheless used to be worried that he can be arrested.

“The defendant desires to come to court docket nonetheless he is worried that there would possibly be an assert of arrest placing on his head,” Adedipe submitted.