Jonathan Nwokpor
Ola Olukoyede, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed how he spoke with Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi, over the phone on the accusations of corruption levelled against him.
During a Tuesday interactive session with newsmen in Abuja, Olukoyede stated that Bello had requested that the EFCC visit his village and question him.
“I called Yahaya Bello, as a serving governor, to come to my office to clear himself. I shouldn’t have done that,” he said.
“But he said because a certain senator has planted over 100 journalists in my office, he would not come.
“I told him that he would be allowed to use my private gate to give him a cover, but he said my men should come to his village to interrogate him.”
Olukoyede went on to say that when the EFCC attempted to arrest the former governor at his home, they did not break any laws.
“Rather, we have obeyed the law. I inherited the case and I didn’t create it. Why has he not submitted himself to the law?” he inquired.
The chairman of EFCC promised that anyone responsible for hindering Bello’s arrest from his home in Abuja will suffer the full force of the law.
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