Kogi Govt To President Tinubu: Charges Against Yahaya Bello Politically Motivated, Stop EFCC From Becoming Instrument Of Oppression
Kogi state Government on Friday urged President Bola Tinubu to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from becoming an instrument of oppression while alleging that the fraud charges filed against the immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello are politically motivated.
Recall that the EFCC had in an amended charge filed against Governor Ododo’s Chief of Staff , Alli Bello, indicted the former governor, who was alleged to have misused about N100 billion belonging to the state government .
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the state government while reacting to this development via a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo insisted that its funds are not missing, and accused the anti -graft agency of making itself available as a tool and platform to paint Yahaya Bello in a bad light.
‘As an administration, we inherited the zero tolerance for corruption policy from the Yahaya Bello administration.
A few years ago, we witnessed a worrisome trend and torrent of witch-hunt by the EFCC unrepentantly striving to force corruption claims on our government and its officials. The commission started with claims that it discovered a nonexistent fund in an alleged fixed deposit account.
It eventually shot itself in the foot with a badly scripted skit of conniving with the now discredited (Godwin) Emefiele-led Central Bank of Nigeria to claim that the money was returned to the Central Bank of Nigeria. This is the height of a witch-hunt and unprovoked attack on the integrity of the government and people of Kogi state.
For the record, we wish to make it clear that Kogi’s funds are not missing, and that the EFCC is trying so hard to find what is not missing. We, therefore, call on the EFCC to desist from mentioning the name of Kogi state in its ongoing persecution, orchestrated by some political actors in and around the Presidency bent on destroying Bello’s image.
The amended charges in which the name of the former governor was mentioned are false, frivolous, fictitious, and far from the truth. They are cooked-up charges that signpost their desperation to give a dog a bad name to hang it. The intention was to sensationalize the whole scenario and promote a media war against the former governor and other officials of the government’ the statement alleged-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 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
