The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has
disclosed that former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello has been hiding in the
state government’s house.
EFCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Wilson Uwajaren,
disclosed this while featuring on Arise Television’s Morning Show.
Uwajaren said Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State had to
present him to EFCC because he might have seen that he was becoming an
accomplice to a crime.
According to Uwajaren: “Before Yahaya Bello arrived at the
car park of the EFCC, he had already sent media information across all
platforms that he had presented himself before the EFCC and was detained; and
that was not true.
“At the time that information got across, Yahaya Bello was
not in the premises of the EFCC and he had not arrived there. That for us was
an indication that he had a game plan and was not a matter of merely submitting
himself to the commission.
“From our review of what really happened, it was a case of
the current Governor Ododo being conscious of the fact that he was turning into
an accomplice of a crime he probably didn’t know about because all this while
Yahaya Bello has been dodging EFCC and stalling proceedings, he had been hiding
in Government House in Lokoja. When we made the first attempt to arrest him, it
was the same governor that took him away.”
EFCC is currently prosecuting Bello for alleged
misappropriation and money laundering worth N80.2bn while he was in office.
Attempts to arrest Bello and make him face probe and
prosecution failed as Ododo had stopped the EFCC from apprehending him from his
Abuja residence a few months ago.
Last week, Bello stormed EFCC’s office in the company of
Bello for questioning but was later released.
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