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₦80.2bn Fraud: EFCC Finally Detains Yahaya Bello After Visit

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has finally detained ex-Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello.

Bello was detained after he presented himself at the headquarters of the EFCC in Abuja on Tuesday.

The former governor’s detention was disclosed by EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale.

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Addressing journalists, Oyewale said Bello was arrested by the Commission’s chief security officer.

“It is true that we have him in our custody. The operatives of the Commission arrested him,” Oyewale said.

Bello went to the EFCC headquarters on Tuesday morning with his lawyers to respond to allegations of misappropriation of funds levelled against him, after months of shunning repeated invitations.

He went to the EFCC office with his lawyers.

But hue successor, Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State, who followed him to the EFCC office few weeks ago, was not in the entourage.

EFCC had on April 18, 2024, declared Bello wanted in connection with an N80.2 billion money laundering charge.

In other news, the Supreme Court, on Friday, dismissed the suit instituted by 19 states against the Attorney-General of the Federation, challenging the constitutionality of the Acts establishing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and two other anti-corruption agencies.

The plaintiffs had argued that the Supreme Court, in Dr Joseph Nwobike Vs Federal Republic of Nigeria, had held that it was a UN Convention Against Corruption that was reduced into the EFCC Establishment Act and that in enacting the law in 2004, the provision of Section 12 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, was not followed.

They argued that, in bringing a Convention into the Nigerian law, the provision of Section 12 must be complied with.

According to them, the provision of the Constitution necessitated the majority of the states’ Houses of Assembly agreeing to bringing the Convention in before passing the EFCC Act and others, which was allegedly never done.

 

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