The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the immediate past Kwara State Governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed for spending the sum of N1,610,730,500.00 meant for the security and running cost in the state to charter private jets when he was in power.
Ahmed was arraigned on Friday at the Federal High Court in
Ilorin, the state capital.
The EFCC had accused Ahmed of spending the sum of N1,610,730,500.00 meant for the security and running cost in the state to charter private jets when he was in power.
The agency revealed this in a document obtained by The PUNCH
on Thursday, adding the former governor would be arraigned on alleged N10
billion fraud.
Ahmed is facing 12 counts.
In one of the counts, the EFCC accused Ahmed of fraudulently
converting N400 million of a N1 billion short-term loan received by the Kwara
State Government from Ecobank Nigeria Limited to complete ongoing projects in
the state.
The EFCC said, “Ahmed (while being the Governor of Kwara
State) between 2015 and 2019 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this
honourable court used an aggregate sum of N1,610,730,500, property of Kwara
State Government, meant for the security and running cost of the Government of
Kwara State, to charter private jets through Travel Messengers Limited on
different occasions for your local travels and which sum you reasonably ought
to have known formed part of the proceeds of your unlawful act, to wit:
criminal breach of trust or theft.”
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