THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, over alleged multi-billion naira fraud.
While the anti-graft agency said its men arrested the former governor, a statement from Bello’s media office has it that he went to the EFCC office in Abuja with his lawyers, yesterday morning, following the Supreme Court judgment that dismissed the case by some states on the constitutionality of the anti-graft agency.
However, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, struck out a fundamental right enforcement suit filed by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, seeking to prohibit EFCC, from arresting him after his tenure in office.
EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, in a telephone conversation, yesterday, disclosed that the former governor was arrested about 12.54 p.m. and detained at the…
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