Briefing the press in Lagos, the commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, gave the EFCC 48 hours to retract the statement posted on its Facebook Account on November 19 or the state would take a legal action against it.
The commissioner stated that the money the EFCC claimed to have been returned to the CBN does not belong to Kogi State. Fanwo said the whole saga was, “a hatchet job conceived by politicians and implemented by an EFCC under Abdulrasheed Bawa leadership to tarnish the rising political profile of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello and bring him to disrepute and lower him in the estimation of right-thinking members of the society and portray him as a corrupt person.’’
The commissioner explained that those maligning the personality of the governor had tried other anti-graft agencies without luck, but resorted to using EFCC that presented itself as a willing tool to discredit Governor Bello.
“Let it be known that the Kogi State government refutes every bit of these false allegations being peddled by the EFCC. The Kogi State government had disbursed its bailout loans for the purpose of which it was granted as of October 2019.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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