EFCC gives reason for not breaking into Yahaya Bello’s residence after recent showdown
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has cleared the air on why the operatives of the anti-graft body refused to break into the Abuja residence of the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.
Olukoyede explained during a press briefing on Tuesday that the operatives of the EFCC refused to force their way in to handpick the former governor Bello to avoid a potential loss of lives after he was declared wanted for corruption.
“We met over 30 armed policemen and 10 Counter Terrorist Unit personnel with Yahaya Bello. I went with my gallant men, over 50 of them. We would have exchanged fire, and there would have been casualties,” the EFCC boss said.
The embattled governor has since gone undercover since the last siege on his residence by the agency.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bello asked the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to vacate the arrest warrant order issued to the EFCC against him on April 17.
Mr Bello, through his lawyer Adeola Adedipe, made the application on Tuesday following an order by Justice Emeka Nwite, directing the EFCC to effect the service of the charge and proof of evidence on the ex-governor’s lead counsel, Abdulwahab Mohammed.
The has since fixed May 10 for ruling on the application.
Justice Emeka Nwite fixed the date after EFCC’s counsel, Kemi Pinheiro, and the ex-governor’s lawyer, Adeola Adedipe, adopted their processes and presented their arguments in the motion.
