Yahaya Bello withdrew $720k from Kogi State to pay children's fees - EFCC

 The EFCC chairman clarified that he received the case file related to the ex-governor and didn't instigate the inquiry.

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that Yahaya Bello, the ex-governor of Kogi State, took out $720,000 from the state’s funds to cover his child’s future school expenses.

Olukoyede claimed during a discussion with media leaders in Abuja that Bello moved the money straight from the state’s accounts to a bureau de change operator, intending to prepay his child’s school fees before leaving office.

Olukoyede emphasised the impropriety of such actions, saying, “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 in anticipation that he was going to leave the government house. In a poor state like Kogi, you want me to close my eyes under the guise of ‘I’m being used’. Used by who? At this stage of my life.”