Ex-Kwara Governor Used N1.6B Meant For Security/Running Cost To Charter Private Jets – EFCC

Ex-Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed used N1.6 billion meant for security and running cost to charter private jets, EFCC reveals.

Immediate past governor arraigned on Friday on a 12-count charge bordering on alleged mismanagement of public funds to the tune of N10 billion.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned ex-Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin for alleged N10 billion fraud.

In a statement by the EFCC on Friday, the anti-grant agency said that the immediate past governor was arraigned on a 12-count charge bordering on alleged mismanagement of public funds to the tune of N10 billion.

Ahmed, among sundry issues allegedly spent the sum of N1.6 billion meant for the security and administration of the state to charter private jets when he held sway as governor between 2015-2019.

One of the charges reads:

“That you, ABDULFATAH AHMED (while being the Governor of Kwara State) between 2015 and 2019 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court used an aggregate sum of N1,610,730,500.00 property of Kwara State Government, meant for the security and running cost of the Government of Kwara State to charter private jets through Travel Messengers Limited on different occasions for your local travels and which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of your unlawful act, to wit: Criminal Breach of Trust or Theft and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2)(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (As Amended) and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act”.

Ahmed was also accused of failing to make a declaration in the Assets Declaration Form offered him by the officers of the EFCC after he was arrested contrary to Section 27(3)(c) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act No. 1 of 2004, which is punishable with a term of 5years imprisonment under Section 27(3) of the same Act.

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