The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused the former governor of Kwara State, Abdulfattah Ahmed, of doing something wrong with money.
The anti-graft agency had accused the former governor of spending the sum of N1,610,730,500.00 meant for the security and running cost in the state to charter private jets when he was in power.
The EFCC brought Ahmed to court in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, on Friday to answer to these accusations.
They said Ahmed also did something else wrong involving ten billion naira. He’s facing twelve different charges for his actions.
One of the things they said he did was take four hundred million naira from one billion naira loan meant to finish projects in the state and use it in a way that wasn’t right.
The EFCC stated, “Ahmed, while he was the governor of Kwara State from 2015 to 2019 in Ilorin, took one billion, six hundred and ten million, seven hundred and thirty thousand, five hundred naira that belonged to the Kwara State Government. This money was supposed to be used for important things like security and running the state, but he used it to rent private jets for his local travels instead. He should have known that this money was from his wrong actions, like stealing or breaking trust.”
Abdulfattah Ahmed used to work as the finance commissioner when Dr Bukola Saraki was the governor. After Saraki, Ahmed became the governor and led Kwara from 2011 to 2019.
