The Governor That Withdrew N60bn Cash

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Governor that withdrew<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that Abdulrasheed Bawa&comma; Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission &lpar;EFCC&rpar;&comma; has disclosed how a serving governor withdrew N60 billion cash within six years&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bawa made disclosed this in the latest edition of the agency’s in-house magazine &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;EFCC Alert&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The EFCC chairman did not reveal the identity of the governor but said the governor is from the North-Central&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Of the six states in the North Central&comma; Governors Simon Lalong &lpar;Plateau&rpar;&comma; Samuel Ortom &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;google&period;com&sol;">Benue&rpar;<&sol;a>&comma; Abubakar Sani Bello &lpar;Niger&rpar; and Yahaya Bello &lpar;Kogi&rpar; have spent six years&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; discreet investigation indicates that the governor is &&num;8220&semi;young and active&&num;8221&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bawa said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A governor in a North-Central state within the last six years &lpar;one individual&rpar; has withdrawn over N60 billion in cash&comma;” the EFCC chairman stated in the anti-graft agency’s in-house monthly publication&comma; EFCCALERT&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are not setting out to be engaging with people on the pages of newspapers or press conferences&period; We are working hard trying to see what we can do behind the scenes &lbrack;to eradicate corruption&rsqb;&period; And very soon&comma; Nigerians are going to see some of the things that we are doing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can tell you for free that the new Department of Intelligence that we have created is working wonders&period; They have come up with a lot of intelligence&period; In one of them&comma; a governor in a North-Central state within the last six years &lpar;one individual&rpar; has withdrawn over N60 billion in cash&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are looking at all of that&comma; and I assure you that at the end of all of our investigations&comma; Nigerians are going to be briefed of what we are doing behind the scene on cybercrime&comma; politically exposed persons as well as engaging government agencies to ensure that we have better processes and procedures on how to do government business&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Bawa dismissed as untrue the claim that corruption cases against former governors had been swept under the carpet&comma; saying the commission was steadily on the cases&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can assure you that we are working &lpar;on them&rpar;&period; We don’t want to talk about matters that are under investigation&period; Yes&comma; we invited a former governor &lpar;Lucky Igbinedion&rpar; for interrogation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He was with us for two days and he has been released&semi; an investigation is ongoing&comma; but we are being careful and cautious&comma; so we won’t be accused of engaging in a media trial&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; DAILYTRUST<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;