The Kogi State Authorities has known as on the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee to return clear on its prosecution of the previous governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, stressing that the state's sources aren’t missing.
The anti-graft company named Bello on Thursday in an amended criticism filed on the Federal Excessive Court docket, Abuja.
The fee accuses the previous governor, alongside together with his cousin and present Chief of Workers, Alli Bello, and one Dauda Sulaiman of siphoning off N100 billion from the state in September 2015.
Reacting to the allegation, the state Commissioner for Data, Kingsley Fanwo, in an announcement on Friday, described the amended costs because the handiwork of some “political actors across the presidency” who’re decided to tarnish the picture of the previous governor.
“We consider that this despicable agenda is unknown to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who entrusted these individuals with energy within the hope that they are going to use it judiciously for the greatness of our nation. Sadly, they’ve determined to make use of the privileges given to them as a instrument for political revenge
“The amended criticism naming the previous governor is fake, frivolous, fictitious and much from the reality. They’re trumped up accusations that time to their desperation to provide a canine a foul title after which grasp it. The intention was to sensationalize the complete state of affairs and promote a media struggle in opposition to the previous governor and different authorities officers.
“Now we have seen how low EFCC and its paymasters can go to accommodate the political agenda of those that worry the rising profile of Alh. Yahaya Bello,” the assertion learn partially.
The state authorities, in the meantime, known as on President Bola Tinubu to order a particular investigation into the actions of the fee within the state, insisting that the state believes in transparency, accountability and honesty, in keeping with the 2016 development.
