The wife of Yahaya Bello, the Governor of Kogi State, has been arraigned in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
TheCable reports that she was arraigned over an alleged fraud.
Also arraigned on Wednesday before a federal high court in Abuja was Ali Bello, identified as a nephew to the governor.
In a statement by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesperson, the agency said the both high profile Kogi State citizens were docked alongside three other persons on an 18-count charge “bordering on criminal misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of N3,081,804,654″.
Rashida is, however, said to be at large.
Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Ali Bello, Abba Adaudu, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, Iyada Sadat, Rashida Bello (at large) sometime in June, 2020 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court procured E- Traders International Limited to retain the aggregate sum of N3,081,804,654.00 (Three Billion, Eighty One Million, Eight Hundred and Four Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Four Naira) which sum you reasonably ought to have known forms part of proceeds of unlawful activity to wit: criminal misappropriation, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to sections 18(a), 15(20)(d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 as amended and punishable under section 15 (3) of the same Act.”
Details soon…