Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State is allegedly milking the state’s treasury dry with just week’s to the end of his tenure.
A source in the state has revealed to www.theoctopusnews.com that the duo of Ope Saraki and the state’s Commissioner for Information Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye who were recently arraigned at an Ilorin High Court are stooges of the Governor.
Ope Saraki, currently a Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed is facing trials for an alleged fraud he committed during Gov. Saraki’s time in office, while there are talks of those he has allegedly helped the sitting Governor to commit.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Wednesday, May 13, arraigned Ope Saraki alongside the Kwara State Commissioner for Information, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye in an alleged fraud case running into N371m.
The duo were arraigned before Justice A.O Faji of the Federal High Court, Ilorin for offenses bordering on abuse of office, awarding contracts to cronies, diversion of public funds and money laundering.
Moronfoye was docked on a three count charge while Saraki who was arraigned alongside his companies: Cogent Integrated Service Nigeria Limited and Ladida Support Service Limited were arraigned separately on a five count charge, as the company were used to defraud the state.
They might go to jail for allegedly awarding contracts to the tune of over N200m (two hundred million naira) for the renovation of Ijagbo Primary Health Centre and Specialist Hospitals within the State, to a company in which he has interest and was the sole signatory to the account.
Saraki similarly abused his office and laundered state funds for his personal benefit by awarding inflated contracts to companies owned by his cronies.
In one of the transactions involving the purchase of Ambulance Buses for hospitals in the state, Saraki duped the people of Kwara State by procuring thirteen Hiace buses from a “Local Car Dealer” and converting them to ambulance in place of factory built ambulance for which a contract of N171,990,000.00 (one hundred and seventy one million, nine hundred and ninety thousand naira) was awarded to Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.
As it is presently, only few people will be surprised if Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed is dragged to court for alleged fraud after the end of his term in office.
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