Find the EFC Press statement below...
A former Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals to
Bukola Saraki, ex-governor of Kwara State, and incumbent Commissioner
for Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed administration, Prince Olatunji
Oyeyemi Moronfoye, will on March 19, 2015 be arraigned by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before a Federal High Court,
Ilorin Kwara State, for offences bordering on abuse of office, awarding
contracts to his cronies, embezzlement, diversion of public funds, and
money laundering.
Also to be docked by the anti-graft agency is Ope Saraki, cousin and
Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals to Governor
Ahmed.
Moronfoye is alleged to have used his position as the Senior Special
Adviser to the former governor to enrich himself.
Specifically, he allegedly awarded contracts to the tune of over
N200million for the renovation of Ijagbo Primary Health Centre and the
supply of medical equipments to Health Centres and Specialist Hospitals
within the state, to a company in which he has interest. and was sole
signatory to the account.
Saraki is also alleged to have abused his office and laundered state
funds for his personal benefit by awarding inflated contracts to
companies owned by his cronies. In one of the transactions involving the
purchase of Ambulance buses for hospitals in the state, Saraki duped
the people of Kwara State by procuring thirteen Hiace buses from a local
car dealer and converting them to ambulance in place of factory built
ambulance for which a contract of N171, 990,000.00 was awarded to
Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.
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