Former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, don receive court summons to appear before Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja over allegations of criminal breach of trust and possession of unlawfully acquired property.
The summons, wey Justice Maryann E. Anenih issue, alleged that Bello commit the offences between 2016 and 2023. According to court documents, Bello violate Section 311 of the Penal Code Law, Cap. 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria 1963, which deal with criminal breach of trust and punishable under Section 312.
Bello also face charges under Section 319A for allegedly possessing property suspected to have been obtained through unlawful means. The EFCC make the summons public on their X handle on Friday.
The summons read partly: “A complaint has been made on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that you, Yahaya Adoza Bello, sometimes within the year 2016 up until 2023… did commit offences to wit: criminal breach of trust… and having possession or control of property reasonably suspected to have been unlawfully obtained.”
Bello expected to appear before “High Court No. 3, Maitama, on November 14, 2024, at 9.am.” The EFCC had earlier declare the former governor wanted and recently file fresh charges against him, accusing him of N110 billion fraud.
The EFCC initially file 19 charges against Bello, along with his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Suliman, and Abdulsalam Hudu, for money laundering offences amounting to N80,246,470,088.88. However, in the fresh 16 charges dated September 25, the total sum of the same money laundering offences rise to N110,446,470,89.00.
