Yahaya Bello wants EFFC case moved to Kogi

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Erstwhile governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has demanded that money laundering case filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,(EFCC) be moved to Kogi.

Mr. Bello posited that since he was alleged to have committed the offence when he was the governor of Kogi state, it is therefore out of place to carry out court proceedings outside the state.
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EFCC is prosecuting Yahaya Bello alongside his Ali Bello, Dauda Suleiman and Abdulsalam Hudu on 19-count charges bordering on money laundering to the tune of N80, 246, 470,089.88k (Eight Billion, Two Hundred and Forty-six Million, Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand and Eighty-nine Naira, Eighty-eighty Kobo).

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