Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has nabbed Aliyu Bello, Governor Yahaya Bello’s nephew, and Dauda Sulaiman for fraudulently withdrawing ten billion naira from Kogi’s treasury.
This was disclosed by the Commission in a statement on Thursday.
Both offenders have been remanded in prison custody by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho of the Abuja Division o the Federal High Court.
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Also, Bello was arraigned alongside Abdulsalami Hudu, the Kogi Government House cashier.
The statement read:
“They were remanded upon arraignment alongside one Abdulsalami Hudu, Cahier of Kogi State House Administration (now at large) on a 10-count charge of misappropriation and money laundering.
“Bello and Sulaiman are accused of fraudulently withdrawing a sum of N10,270,556,800 from the Kogi State treasury, which they delivered to a bureau de change operator, Rabiu Tafada, in Abuja to keep or change to foreign currencies for personal gains.”
However, on Thursday, Kogi’s information commissioner Kingsley Fanwo accused EFCC of “desperation to crucify Kogi state at all costs.”
Fanwo said:
“The chairman of the EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has shown a desperate penchant for satisfying his sponsors who are bent on disparaging the good image of the Government and people of Kogi State for political gains.”
