Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says, Yahaya Bello, the immediate-past Governor of Kogi state withdrew $720,000, from the state coffees, while in office, to offset his child’s school fees in advance.
The anti-graft agency supremo disclosed it in a chat with journalists at the Commission’s headquarters in the Jabi area of Abuja, on Tuesday.
The former Kogi helmsman moved the money from the state coffers to a Bureau de Change operator before it was diverted to pay for his offspring’s education fee.
“A sitting governor, because he knew he was leaving office, moved money directly from the government to Bureau de Change (and) used it to pay his child’s school fee in advance.
“Over $720,000 or thereabout, in anticipation that he was going to leave the Government House. In a poor state like Kogi? And you want me to close my eyes under the guise of ‘I’m being used’. Used by who? At this stage of my life? Used by who?
“I didn’t initiate the case; I inherited the case. I called for the case file and I said there are issues here,” Olukoyede added.
He, thereafter, vowed to resign as EFCC chairman if Bello is not prosecuted.
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