The Kogi State Government has kicked against the allegation of N80billion fraud against the immediate past governor of the state, Yahaya Bello by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The EFCC had charged the former governor with financial fraud to the tune of N80billion.
The anti-graft commission in an amended charge, accused him of diverting N80billion of state funds in September 2015, four months before he assumed office.
You will recall that the EFCC had arraigned the former Kogi state Governor’s nephew, Ali Bello, before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, for alleged money laundering to the tune of N10 billion belonging to the State government.
But the state government in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, accused the EFCC of being “infested with persons whose intents disagree with the noble intention of ‘Mr. President’ to defeat corruption in Nigeria.”
His co-conspirators according to the count are Abdulsalami Hudu (Kogi State Government House Cashier) described as being ‘at large’ too, Ali Bello and Dauda Suleiman.’’
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