The President Muhammadu Buhari led
Federal Government is set fill fraud charges against some former governors
before the end of October, Punch newspaper is reporting. According to the
report, FG through the newly set up National Prosecution Coordination Committee
will prosecute Senate President Bukola Saraki( Kwara); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa
Ibom); and a factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali
Modu Sheriff (Borno State).
Recall that that the AGF, Abubakar Malami, had written to both the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices
and other related offences Commission, calling for the duplicate files of the
alleged corruption cases involving some named 31 ex-governors.
A source, a top member of the NPCC
said the preliminary issues would be completed soon and the Federal
Government’s special teams of prosecutors would start filing charges against
some of the ex-governors. Other former governors include Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia);
Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu); Saminu Turaki (Jigawa); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Joshua
Dariye (Plateau); Ahmed Yerima (Zamfara); Gabriel Suswam (Benue); Martin Elechi
(Ebonyi); Danjuma Goje (Gombe) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa).
They also include Ikedi Ohakim
(Imo); Achike Udenwa (Imo); Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa); Gbenga Daniel (Ogun);
Jolly Nyame (Taraba); Boni Haruna (Adamawa); George Akume (Benue); Rashidi
Ladoja (Oyo); Attahiru Bafarawa (Sokoto) and Adebayo Alao-Akala (Oyo). Others
are Usman Dakingari (Kebbi); Adamu Mu’azu (Bauchi); Peter Odili (Rivers), and
Lucky Igbindedion (Edo). Among the ex-governors, only Udenwa, Mu’azu,
Dakingari, Sheriff, Akume, Elechi and Akpabio have never been charged by any of
the anti-corruption agencies.
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