Gov Mattawale Free To Offer Advice To EFCC–FG…  He’s Under Investigation  For  N70b Fraud-EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has  disclosed that  Governor  Bello Matawalle  of Zamfara state  has been under investigation  and may soon face questioning over  what  happened to  N70 billion belonging  to  the state  government  on his watch.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned Osita Nwajah,  who is the anti-graft agency’s  Director of Public Affairs, made this disclosure  during the  press conference he presided over at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

‘The real issue with Matawalle is that he is being investigated by the EFCC, over allegations of corruption, award of phantom contracts and diversion of over N70 billion’ he said.

This had come barely   24 hours after the governor had asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  to  investigate presidency officials and the outgoing ministers.

Mattawale had  advised the EFCC to stop castigating governors and beam its searchlight on the Presidency officials and members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

‘The investigation must be holistic and not selective. It is in this respect that the recent invitations and pronouncement by the EFCC Chair is imbalance, incomplete, hypocritical and unnecessarily skewed.

I demand that the EFCC chair extend similar invitations to officers of the Presidency and members of the Federal Executive Council, which is the highest tier of government in the country’ he had said.

The governor  had also  asked the EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, to  call it quit.

The Federal Government  had since submitted that the governor  had expressed his personal opinion and had simply exercised his right to freedom of expression.

‘The governor has the right to make suggestions, that is his own opinion’ Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you