EFCC Withdraws Operatives From Yahaya Bello’s House After Governor Ododo Saved Him From Arrest

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn its operatives from the home of the former governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, over alleged fraud.

Recall that EFCC operatives had on Wednesday mounted surveillance around the home of Bello on No 9 Benghazi Street, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, apparently to arrest him.

The EFCC operatives retreated shortly after the sitting Governor Usmaan Ododo, who paid him a visit departed around 4.30.pm.

However, the security operatives learnt Bello was in Ododo’s car who had successfully smuggled him into his official vehicles. They fired warning shots in their bid to force the vehicles to a stop.

It’s not clear where Bello was driven to but the security operatives did not give chase.

It was learnt that the withdrawal of the operatives of EFCC was as a result of court order, which restraint the commission from arresting, detaining or prosecuting the former Kogi governor.

A High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi had on Wednesday restrained the EFCC from infringing on the fundamental human rights of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, former Kogi State Governor.

In a two hour judgment delivered on Wednesday, at the High Court 4 and presided over by Hon. Justice I.A Jamil, in suit no HCL/68/M/2020, the court restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting the applicant except as authorised by the Court.

The judgment followed the suit brought before the court by Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the applicant, seeking to enforce his fundamental rights against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The Court equally restrained the respondents from continuing to persecute the Applicant.