The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained the immediate past governor of Kwara State Abdulfatah Ahmed over alleged diversion of N9billion by his administration.
Ahmed reportedly arrived at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja at about 10am on Monday in response to the invitation extended to him by the agency.
EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren confirmed that the former governor responded to the commission’s invitation but declined further comment.
However, a source told PUNCH: “Ahmed has been in the interrogation room writing statements for the past seven hours in connection to the N9billion diverted from the coffers of Kwara state government during his tenure as governor of Kwara state between 2011 and 2019, and his time as commissioner for finance in the administration of Bukola Saraki, the former senate president.”
In January, the anti-graft agency arraigned the commissioner for finance under Ahmed’s administration on charges of N411million money laundering.
The agency alleged that the ex-commissioner, Ademola Banu, committed the crime in 2018 by conspiring with others to launder the said sum belonging to the Kwara State Government.
