Declaring Yahaya Bello wanted unnecessary – Atiku's ex-aide, Bwala slams EFCC

Declaring Yahaya Bello wanted unnecessary – Atiku's ex-aide, Bwala slams EFCC

 A former spokesman to the defunct Atiku-Okowa Presidential
Campaign Council, Daniel Bwala, has faulted the decision of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to declare ex-Kogi State governor, Yahaya
Bello wanted.

 

Bwala said EFCC had all the instruments at its disposal to
arrest Bello, hence declaring him wanted was not necessary.

 

He wondered why EFCC could not treat Bello the same way it
did to former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha.

 

EFCC had declared Bello wanted over an alleged case of money
laundering to the tune of N80.2 billion.

 

The anti-graft agency has also informed the Federal High
Court in Abuja that it was considering the possibility of engaging the Nigerian
Army to effect Bello’s arrest.

 

This followed the agency’s inability to arrest the former
governor during a raid on his residence in Abuja during the week.

 

The intervention of Bello’s successor, Governor Usman Ododo,
enabled the ex-governor to evade arrest.

 

Since the incidence in Abuja, the former governor’s
whereabouts has remained unknown, a situation that prompted the EFCC to declare
him wanted.

 

Reacting, Bwala posted on X: “Unless EFCC and Yaya Bello are
both doing simulation for a movie about the agency and former governors, the
press statement captioned “wanted” is not necessary.

 

“You were at his residence to effect arrest- you failed to
apply ACJA or better still what you did to Okorocha at his residence.

 

“You knew who came and whisked him away- you allowed that

 

“Both him and the incumbent governor have security detail
from police and SSS who must report activities including the whereabouts of
their VIPs to their commands- meaning his whereabouts is not hidden

 

“You knew Police and SSS have surveillance instruments for
geo-tracking and geo-locating- yet you failed to approach

 

“You are asking the general public to give you information
about someone you have every reason to know his whereabouts. Please do your job
without dramatizing it.”

Source: Declaring Yahaya Bello wanted unnecessary – Atiku's ex-aide, Bwala slams EFCC

 - NigerianEye

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