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In what looked like an art of
a man ready to take a bullet for

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his master or predecessor Kogists governor,
whoseman although personally led other security operatives and

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civilian supporters to the houndsway of the
PERSONNLA of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

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EFCC, who barricaded and led sich
to the Abuja resident of the immediate past

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governor of Kogi State the higher below
with intention to arrast him over eighty four

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billion neyers alleged fraud while he was
in office. EFCC personal heavily armed barrikennen

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the Abuja resident of the former governor
right from nine thirty am on Wednesday morning

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and mint resistance from the private security
guards and personal security officers attached to the

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former governor who prevented the anti corruption
police officers from entering the house. According

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to bystanders, the EFCC operatives who
appeared at the month brought all roads leading

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to the house, take positions and
said their guns on alerts and the insisted

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on carrying out the Federal High Court
order of arrests on the former governor,

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while the personal security operatives of the
former governor lewed EFCC proceided back Governor Dulu

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around two thirty pm personally led other
large numbers of security operatives to the same.

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The governor’s presence, according to onlookers, caused some pandemonium among the security

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operatives, leading to shooting of guns
and tear gus. The governor succeeded in

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smuggling and n they escape of the
former governor from EFCC arrests. The Punch

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newspaper reported that the governor and his
entrance drove out of the former governor’s compound

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around four thirty pm with the higher
Bilu inside the Governor’s seat of power very

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the coal Thereafter, the EFCC operatives
and other security men retreated from the house.

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We have earlier reported that the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has taken

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over the abujaho of former Kogi State
Governor ya Hire below with all those plans

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to arrest him. Despite the former
governor, led by the incumbent Governor Usman

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Ododo, reportedly visited the presidential villa
CoDeeN lamed us a rock to see President

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Bola and me Tinubu on Mumbai.
Videos posted online shop personnel of e FCC

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block on both side of the Road
where the former governor house is situated in

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Abuja. The ex Commondal, through
his media office, has reacted to the

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siege led by the EFCC, calling
on the President to intervene operatives of the

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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission STOM the
Abuja home of the former governor of Kogi

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State, Yahire Belu, located in
Mousazul four, Federal Capital Territory. On

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Wednesday, Money ya Hire below had
in a post published with photographs via his

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personal and social media account on Monday
after he had reportedly visited President Bolla Tilubu

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stated below, hearty appreciation to our
princes cential Leader, his Excellency, Mister

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President Asiloji Bola aled Tenabu, the
gentleman of Africa. God bless you,

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your excellency, Sir, God blas
the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The photographs

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of him alongside the current cogistate governor, who smiled Adodu with the President elusited

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more than a thousand comments of the
former governor personal Facebook page. It would

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be recalled that EFCC had earlier drugged
the higher Belo. His nephew Ali won

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the elder Suleman and Abdul Salam Human
before Justice Johns on Motor Show of the

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Federal High Court, Abuja in an
amended charge in March twenty twenty four over

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and alleged eighty four billion layers moneylaundering
fraud. The ex Commandor’s vide their office,

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according to Punt Newspaper, in a
statement, reacted and condemned the EFCC

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operatives actions, while origin President Bola
Tinubu to caution the EFCC. According to

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the statement, the presence of the
operatives in Bello’s residents negated the order of

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injunction granted on February ninth, twenty
twenty four by the High Court of Justice,

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Local Ji Division in suit number HCl
sixty eight m twenty twenty four between

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the Higher belu versus EFCC, restraining
the Commission, either by itself or its

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agents, from harassing, arrested the
tena or prosecuting him pending the hearing and

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determination of the substantial fundamental rights enforcement
option. The statement read. The EFCC

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was duly served with that order on
February twelfth, twenty twenty four, and

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on February twenty six, twenty twenty
four, the EFCC filed an appeal number

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ciad JCB one hundred and seventy five
twoenty and twenty fourth Economic and Financial Crimes

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Commissioned versus Al HAJII Higher Belu against
the said order to the Court of Appeal,

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Abuja Division. The appeal was accompanied
by a motion for a state of

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execution of the order of the High
Court, which the Court of Appeal adjoint

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forhering till April twenty second, twenty
twenty four. Furthermore, judgment and the

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substantive case between Alhaji A Higher Belu
and the EFCC will be delivered at twelve

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mood today in Local Jab. Contrary
to all of the above, the EFCC

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has now led siege to the home
of His Excellency the Higher Belu, seeking

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to arrest him in contravention of the
extant orders. It is a surprise that

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an agency led by a lawyer cont
flagrantly disobey a subsisting court order by taking

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actions contrary to the reliefs granted.
We are aware of the total commitment of

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President Ballad Tellibul’s current administration to the
rule of law and can say categorically that

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the EFCC leadership might have offered the
agency on a platter of good moved to

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desperate politicians to compart it to the
score settler in two without minding the effect

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on its integrity and the image of
Nigeria as regards the rule of law.

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The ex Governor’s media office further alleged
that the Anti graft Agency was plotting to

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embarrassed and harassed him to School’s allegations, especially the latest one dating back to

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September twenty fifteen, long before he
assumed office. The Antigraft Agency in the

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seventeen count amended charge, accused the
higher below of money laundering, rich of

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trust and misappropriation of funds to the
tune of eighty four million, sixty two

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million, four hundred and six thousand
and eighty nine mirers and eighty eight cobos.

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The EFCC had claimed in the amended
charge that the former governor was at

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large. Prior to the charge,
the EFCC had arranged Below’s nephew, Alien

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Belu before the Federal High Court sitting
in Abuja for alleged moneyloundering involvement ten billion

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miers belonging to the Kogi State Government. However, the state government faulted the

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charge, describing it as ridiculous and
laughable, and that it was impossible as

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the former governor was not yet able
to access on misappropriate state funds at the

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said time. The state government,
in a statement signed by the Commissioner for

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Information and Communications, Kingsley fan Will
Had on February seventh, twenty twenty four,

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accused the EFCC of being infested with
persons whose intense disagree with the noble

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intention of mister President to defeat collection
in Nigeria. Count one of the charges

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rates that you Ali Belu, Dada
Suleman Yahya Adeza Belu still at large and

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Abdulsalam Hudu still at large sometime in
September twenty and fifteen in Abujab, within

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the jurisdiction of those honorable Codes,
conspired amongst yourselves to command the total song

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of eighty billion, two hundred and
forty six million, four hundred and seventy

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thousand and eighty nine millers and eighty
eight couples, which some you reasonably ought

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to have non forms part of the
process of your lawful activity to wait criminal

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bridge of trust, and you thereby
committed an offense contrary to Section eighteen,

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being unpunishable under section fifteen three of
the Money Laundering Prohibition Act twenty eleven as

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amended. The EFCC said in a
release sent to Saharad porters, while ex

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Governor Yahia Below and Hugo are still
at large, Ali Below and Suleman first

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and second defendants respectively, who were
present in court, pleaded not guilty to

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all the charges when they were read
to them. Punt newspaper report reads in

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courte reacting former presidential spokesperson and political
analysts Reno or Macrie said, with all

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the short comments of former Governor ya
Higher Below of Kogi and he has many

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defects, he has problem to be
more successful than many of his colleague ex

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governors because he has managed to sustain
the loyalty of his successor, Usman Dudu,

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who came with heavy security to rescue
him from a siege by the Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commission. This is
coming when the Karuna State House of Assembly

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is almost gleefully proven Nazlo five and
k and Fubarah are in a supremacy battle

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for the soul of Rivers State.
No matter how good you performed as a

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governor, if you cannot sustain the
loyalty of a governor, your health install

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It raises questions about your judgment and
relationship build and managing skills. Few people

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have been able to pull this up
in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, including Tinubu,

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Chetima, Guamaco and Omahi. At
the presidential level, it has never happen

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whom for a sustained period, not
even precedents from the same party. It

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is not an easy fit to pull
off. Look at Bollatinabu. It is

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his ability to manage relationships even with
people he does not like and who do

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not like him that has got him
thus far. Success without a successor who

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can also be your protector is a
political disaster. You, Lady Grebe,

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the need in a more reginal way.