The Kogi State House of Assembly has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to work within the ambience of the law.
This was stated during its plenary on Tuesday, following the anti-graft agency’s allegations against the former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, over alleged N80.2 billion fraud.
Recall that the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, was declared wanted by the EFCC on Thursday, April 18, 2024, for alleged money laundering.
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The House further requested that the EFCC remove with immediate effect the tag ‘’wanted’ that it placed on the former governor’s name and person.
The assembly made other resolutions which stated 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 a 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).”
