Yahaya Bello’s Loyalists Seek Spiritual Help Over N80Billion Fraud Case With EFCC, Pray He Becomes Next Nigerian President
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Some loyalists and supporters of the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello have sought spiritual intervention over his issues with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The EFCC has been making efforts to arraign Bello on 19 counts bordering on alleged money laundering, breach of trust and misappropriation of funds to the tune of N80.2 billion.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, last Tuesday, ordered EFCC to serve a copy of the 19 criminal counts against the fleeing Yahaya Bello to his lawyer.
The EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede, during the week, said he would resign from office if Bello was not eventually prosecuted for the fraud allegations levelled against him.
However, in a viral video seen by SaharaReporters, a group of his loyalists are seen at a shrine seeking spiritual intervention that will enable the former governor to escape justice in the money laundering charges brought against him.
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Senator Ayogu Eze is dead
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The former Senator who represented Enugu North Senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Ayogu Eze is dead.
A reliable source told Vanguard that Eze who was in the National Assembly between 2007 and 2015 died on Thursday in an Abuja hospital at the age of 66 after suffering from a protracted illness.
For the 8 years he spent in the Senate, Eze served as Committee Chairman on Information and Media during the first four years and after his reelection to the senate in 2011, was appointed chairman committee on works.
Eze also served as a member of committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs and also member of the Constitution Drafting and Amendment Committee that made some novel changes to Nigeria’s 1999 constitution.
A youth leader from his community, Umuiyda autonomous community in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, Ikechukwu Eze who confirmed it, said he can’t talk now because they are in shock over the sad news.
He said the death of Senator Eze was a big loss to the zone and Nigeria in general.
Maritime police nab two suspects for empty container theft
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The Nigerian Police Force, Maritime Police Command, has arrested two suspects for faking indemnity to shipping companies and stealing empty containers.
The acting Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Ehinmode Adewumi, disclosed this in a statement obtained by The PUNCH, recently.
Adewumi claimed that the male suspects, Okechukwu Onyewuenyi and Chukwuma Ogwashima, were 43 and 42 years old, respectively.
He added that the suspects were members of criminal syndicates that specialise in hijacking and stealing empty containers from importers and transporters under the pretext of using the same for stuffing export goods.
He said that the suspects had been apprehended recently by the Kenneth Ogbeifun-led surveillance team of the Maritime Police Command, Lagos.
“The duo and other members, who are currently at large, are fond of faking indemnity to shipping companies and thereafter selling the empty containers to unsuspecting members of the public,” Adewunmi stated.
He explained that luck ran out of suspects when a case of stolen containers was reported to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Maritime Police Command, Olofu Rhoda, who ordered the surveillance team to investigate it.
Sirika spends second night in EFCC custody over N8bn probe
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Embattled former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has spent his second night in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, over an ongoing N8,069,176,864.00 money laundering probe.
This was as the anti-graft commission began a probe into the alleged fraud involved in the botched Nigeria Air project.
Top EFCC sources privy to the interrogation but were not authorised to speak publicly, confirmed that the EFCC interrogators grilled Mr Sirika over the botched Nigeria Air project that has stirred controversy across the country.
“The interrogators are also probing Mr Sirika over the controversial Nigeria Air project that failed. Though the commission is yet to uncover the total amount that was expended on the project, however, investigation is ongoing, and Sirika would be arraigned in court next week as charges are being prepared against him,” a source revealed.
Another source noted, “The former Minister of Aviation is still with us. Sirika slept over here at our FCT Command on Tuesday night and he’s still with us this Wednesday night, as he’s still being grilled by interrogators.”