Veteran journalist, Dele Momodu has accused the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, of “misfiring” within the ongoing case in opposition to former Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello.
Momodu mentioned the EFCC did not do due diligence throughout their investigation in opposition to Bello.
Talking throughout an Instagram Reside, the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, chieftain faulted EFCC’s claims of Bello utilizing authorities funds to pay his kids college charges upfront earlier than the expiration of his tenure.
He faulted EFCC’s conduct in its try to prosecute Bello, stressing that the fee’s Chairman, Ola Olukoyede ought to have learnt from the circumstances of his predecessors, who he mentioned had been “booted out ignominiously”.
In response to Momodu: “After they introduced within the new chairman, I assumed oh, you’ll get pleasure from studying out of your predecessors.
“All of them had been booted out ignominiously and if I had been within the footwear of the present chairman, what I’ll merely do is be sure that I do my job as meticulously, as professionally, as effectively as attainable. And, you’ll by no means go fallacious if you happen to obey the rule of legislation.
“I watched the EFCC chairman, I feel both final week or the week earlier than the final, I used to be virtually crying as a result of the best way he went on and on..if I don’t do that… spitting fireplace and all.. you don’t must do media trial.”
Requested if the EFCC was mendacity about Bello, Momodu mentioned: “I don’t know, I don’t work for EFCC however from all of the issues that I’ve learn, a whole lot of them, they misfired. That’s the trustworthy fact. They misfired. They didn’t do their due diligence.
“Whenever you mentioned a person took out cash and paid for his kids’s college charges, simply as he was about to go away energy, and also you go and verify the paperwork and also you see that these items began occurring from 2021, 2022 (laughs); I’m not an illiterate.”
The EFCC had accused Bello and three others of alleged cash laundering to the tune of N80.2 billion whereas he was governor.
Olukoyede additionally accused Bello of withdrawing $720,000 to pay for his kids’s college charges earlier than leaving workplace.
This, the previous governor denied.
