The Chief of Workers to Kogi State Governor, Alli Bello, and one Daudu Suleiman have been on Thursday re-arraigned by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee on the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja for allegedly misappropriating N84bnn.
The anti-graft company had on December 15, 2022, arraigned Bello who can be a nephew of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and Suleiman, on 10 counts of alleged misappropriation and cash laundering.
The EFCC accused Bello, alongside Hudu, a cashier on the Kogi State Authorities Home who’s at massive, of withdrawing N10 billion from the state’s treasury for private use.
Within the amended fees, the EFCC elevated the counts to 17 and bordered on Cash laundering, breach of belief, and misappropriation of fundto the tune of N84bn.
The title of the speedy previous governor of the state, Bello was talked about in one of many counts and was mentioned to be at massive.
Depend one of many fees learn, “That you just, Ali Bello, Dauda Suleiman, Yahaya Adoza Bello (nonetheless at massive) and Abdulsalam Hudu (nonetheless at massive), someday in September 2015 in Abuja, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Courtroom, conspired amongst yourselves to transform the whole sum of N80bn which sum you fairly should have identified types a part of the proceeds of your illegal exercise to wit: legal breach of belief and also you thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 18(b) and punishable underneath Part 15(3) of the Cash Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended.”
The EFCC additionally accused Alli Bello and Dauda Suleman of concealing a number of hundreds of thousands of naira with one Rabiu Musa Tafada, a Bureau De Change operator buying and selling underneath World Enterprise in Abuja.
The defendants pleaded not responsible when the fees have been learn to them.
The trial choose, Justice James Omotoso ordered that Alli Bello and Suleman ought to proceed to benefit from the bail circumstances granted them within the earlier fees.
The matter was subsequently adjourned til March 20 and March 21 for trial continuation.