Kogi Assembly to EFCC: Remove the ‘wanted tag’ on Yahaya Bello 

Gloria Ogine April 24, 2024

Recall that the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello was declared wanted by EFCC on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in regards alleged money laundering.

The Kogi State House of Assembly has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to work within the ambience of the law.

This it stated during its plenary on Tuesday as a result of the allegations the anti-graft agency has laid against the former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello over alleged N80.2billion fraud.

Recall that the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello was declared wanted by EFCC on Thursday, April 18, 2024 in regards alleged money laundering.

The House Further made a request asking the EFCC to remove with immediate effect the tag ‘’wanted’  that it placed on the name and person of the former governor.

The assembly made other resolutions which states that:  “The EFCC, IGP, IMMIGRATION, NSA and other agencies conscripted into this melodrama should be informed and involved to act accordingly.

“The Commission should not allow itself to become a tool of political vendetta, blackmail, or intimidation against any individual through personal grudges, persecution, and campaign of calumny to tarnish the image of personalities from Kogi State especially Alh Yahaya Bello or any perceived political enemy of the characters hiding behind their executive powers to unleash allegations through media for public consumption and sympathy.

“The House condemns in its entirety a statement by legal practitioner suggesting a request that the military be involved in the case that does not | constitute threat to internal security or treasonable felony.”

Jibril Onoru-Oiza Abu, Lawmaker representing Ajaokuta State Constituency, in his earlier motion titled: ‘A call to end all false, frivolous, fictitious, and far from the truth smear campaign against the former Governor of Kogi State Alhaji Yahaya Bello’,  claimed that the EFCC has been witch-hunting the former governor.

He further stated that “The recent reports on the print, electronic media and social media handlers had featured various debasing forms of address against the former Governor of Kogi State.”

“Recall that the whole narrative was principally sparked off by the blithe actions, without respect to due legal process, of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).”

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