{"id":69783,"date":"2024-04-23T21:49:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69783"},"modified":"2024-04-23T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:49:25","slug":"video-how-yahaya-bello-invited-my-operatives-to-his-village-to-interrogate-him-efcc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=69783","title":{"rendered":"(Video) How Yahaya Bello invited my operatives to his village to interrogate him &#8211; EFCC boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-69783-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VID-20240423-WA0037.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VID-20240423-WA0037.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/VID-20240423-WA0037.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><b>The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,\u00a0 Mr Ola Olukoyede has disclosed that he made personal efforts to invite a former governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Adoza Bello to respond to investigations regarding his alleged involvement in money laundering to the tune of N80,246,470,089.88 (Eighty Billion, Two Hundred and Forty Six Million, Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand\u00a0 and Eighty Nine Naira, Eighty Eight Kobo).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0Olukoyede stated this in Abuja on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 while addressing media executives at the Corporate Headquarters of the EFCC.\u00a0 According to him, he had a telephone conversation with Bello offering him ample opportunities to present himself for interrogation by investigators of the EFCC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201cOn my honour,\u00a0 I put a call to him to honour him as a former governor. He said, I can\u2019t come, claiming that a certain lady has surrounded \u00a0the EFCC with over 100 Journalists to embarrass or intimidate him and all that stuff. \u00a0\u00a0I said if that is your fear, I will make you come directly to my floor.\u00a0 I will invite my operatives to interrogate you in my own office.\u00a0 What could be more honourable than that? Do you know what he said? \u2018 Can\u2019t they come to my village?\u2019\u00a0 My Director of Investigations also sent a message to him\u201d,\u00a0 he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0The EFCC\u2019s boss said he was worried at the report of larceny available to the EFCC concerning the former governor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201cA sitting governor, because he knew he was going,\u00a0 he moved money directly from the government\u2019s account to a bureau de change\u00a0 to pay his children\u2019s school fees in advance, \u00a0$720,000, in anticipation that he was going to leave government house\u201d,\u00a0 he said.\u00a0<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240424_002714_519.sdocx--><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240424_002714_519.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Video: Courtesy <strong>Channels Television.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Report by <strong>Dele Oyewale<\/strong>, EFCC spokesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,\u00a0 Mr Ola Olukoyede has disclosed that he made personal efforts to invite a former governor of Kogi State, Mr. Yahaya Adoza Bello to respond to investigations regarding his alleged involvement in money laundering to the tune of N80,246,470,089.88 (Eighty Billion, Two Hundred and Forty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5776],"tags":[6622,759,6623],"class_list":["post-69783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-social-media","tag-720k","tag-bello","tag-olukoyede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}