“All lovers of development will frown at corruption. We won’t allow corrupt practices. I will give all necessary support to the agency”

“That the said act was carried out by the Respondent in violation of the order which was valid and subsisting when they carried out those acts. That same act of the Respondent amounts to an act of contempt.”

Bello, who piloted affairs of Kogi State for eight years, is facing a charge bordering on his alleged complicity in money laundering, breach of trust, and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of about N80.2 billion.

“It is wrong for anybody to say that the EFCC is involved in selective prosecution. There is no basis or argument to justify that claim. All our activities are broad-based, fully integrated, professional, and non-selective.”

By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA- IMMUNITY on governors ends after eight years in office, therefore accountability is demanded for their actions and inactions by relevant security and anti-graft agencies, which is now a drama piece in Kogi State for over one month as former Governor, Yahaya Bello is still in hiding, despite court orders given to […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, declined to set aside the order it issued for the arrest for the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

By Kemi Adeyemi In a shocking turn of events, Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, who was once a powerful figure in the country’s political landscape, has found himself on the run, fleeing from the very system he once belonged. The White Lion of Kogi, as he is fondly called, has turned himself […]

“Yahaya Bello is just being stubborn. He has been living very very rough…having a very rough government, corruption, killing of people in the place during elections and so on.”

“Let me use this opportunity to advise my younger brother and friend, former governor Yahaya Bello not to disgrace former governors.”

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission ICPC were established some two decades ago by the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo. The motivation was to set up strategic platforms to deal decisively with the evils of corruption which were generally accepted by all to be at […]

A Constitutional Lawyer, Ewa Okpo, has described the actions of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the ongoing face-off with the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, as “trial by mischief”. In an interview on Arise TV’s morning show on Saturday, the legal practitioner specifically stated that it was wrong, in […]

Until the improbable happens, Yahaya Bello is the genius and Nigeria, 
the butt of jokes

A consortium of lawyers under the aegis of Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law, on Friday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to follow due process in its bid to prosecute the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.

IT is a settled axiom: All bullies are cowards. Hurting and scaring those who are weaker is not bravery and despite their braggadocio, bullies only prey on the weak using aggression and intimidation to cover up their own feelings of inadequacy and fear. Former Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has proven that axiom, once again, […]

“This is why I keep raising the point about the APC coming up with a kind of code of conduct for elected representatives and leaders of the party because leadership is about trust.”