Alleged N10bn fraud: EFCC to arraign ex Kwara Governor Ahmed today
By Tom Okpe
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will today arraign the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, for alleged N10 billion fraud.
Ahmed will be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
The EFCC had, on Monday, grilled the ex governor over transactions running into billions of naira during his time as governor of the state.
Ahmed, who served as Kwara governor from May 2007 to May 2015, was interrogated at the Ilorin office of the anti-graft agency.
The former governor has remained in the custody of the EFCC following his inability to meet his bail conditions.
His close associates however said his interrogation by the anti graft agency was procedural and routine.
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According to one of the associates, Ahmed had always presented himself for interrogation regarding his eight-year tenure as governor whenever summoned by the EFCC.
Some of his associates lamented that the anti graft investigators keep changing the charges against the ex governor, making it difficult to know the specific offence he is being charged with.
Ahmed, whose interrogation began in 2021, was initially being grilled at the Abuja EFCC headquarters before his case file was transferred to the Ilorin office of the agency.
His associates complained that he is being denied access to his doctors and medication in EFCC custody.
The ex governor is alleged to have diverted the sum of N10 billion during his tenure as governor and when he served as finance commissioner under his predecessor, Dr Bukola Saraki.
