A former Governor of Kogi Shape, Yahaya Bello, has honoured a call for participation via the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, his media administrative center showed on Wednesday.
A commentary signed via the Director of the Yahaya Bello Media Place of job, Ohiare Michael, Bello’s choice to seem prior to the anti-graft company comes then consultations together with his community, criminal workforce, and political buddies.
The commentary was once titled “Former Governor Yahaya Bello honours EFCC’s invitation”
Bello was once stated to had been accompanied to the EFCC headquarters via a number of high-profile Nigerians.
The previous governor has been in a working fight with the anti-graft company over alleged monetary impropriety year he was once the number 1 citizen of Kogi.
He and 3 others are going through 19 counts matching to cash laundering to the song of N80.2 billion.
Then again, the commentary disclosed that the previous governor in my view i’m busy with the EFCC to cloudless his title, pointing out he has “nothing to hide and nothing to fear.”
It stated that he had up to now pursued the enforcement of his basic rights to safeguard due procedure within the ongoing investigation.
“The case has been prior to a reliable court docket of jurisdiction, and Alhaji Yahaya Bello were duly represented via his criminal workforce at each and every listening to. It’s remarkable for the previous Governor to now proclaim the invitation of the EFCC to cloudless his title as he has not anything to cover and not anything to concern.
“The former Governor believes firmly in the efforts of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to place Nigeria on the path of sustainable economic development; and supports the fight against corruption in the country,” the commentary learn.
The EFCC’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, may just now not be reached for remark as of the generation of submitting this record.
In April, the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had vowed to surrender if the embattled former governor isn’t prosecuted.
Olukoyede swore to apply the prosecution of Mr Bello to the logical conclusion. He additionally vowed that each one those that obstructed the arrest of the previous governor can be delivered to justice.