The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will arraign former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, before the Federal High Court, Abuja, today, Thursday.
The Anti-graft agency revealed this in a statement put out on Wednesday.
According to the EFCC, Bello will be arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite alongside three other suspects, Ali Bello, Dauda Suleiman and Abdulsalam Hudu.
They are to face a 19- count charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of over N80 Billion naira.
Meanwhile, two courts, on Wednesday, issued contrasting orders in the case involving the EFCC and Bello. The Federal High Court, Abuja, had ordered that a warrant be issued to the EFCC for immediate arrest of the former Kogi governor.
Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on EFCC’s ex parte motion, held that after listening to the submission of commission’s counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, and reading the affidavit in support of the motion, including the exhibits and written address, he was inclined to grant the application.
On the other hand, the High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State, also, yesterday, restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting Bello. Justice I. A. Jamil, who gave the order in a two-hour judgment delivered in suit no HCL/68/M/2020, held that infringing on Bello’s fundamental human rights “is null and void”.
