EFCC Releases Ex-Kwara Governor Bukola Saraki On Health Grounds
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released the ex-governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki,from its detention following an alleged ill-health. He is due to return there in the first week of September.
Saraki, who honoured EFCC’s invitation on Monday, was interrogated by the anti-graft operatives over his alleged involvement in fraud-related matters during his eight-year tenure and when he was the executive director of the defunct Societe Generale Bank Nigeria Limited (SGBN).
We were able to gather from a family member of the ex-governor that he was released on health grounds and was asked to report by first week of September.
Meanwhile, the EFCC’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, has denied an online report published by Sahara
Reporters that the operatives were interrogating the Kwara senator over an alleged N100 million he was collecting monthly as pension from the Kwara State government.
He described the report as baseless, saying he was not aware of anything like that concerning the ex- governor.
Uwujare said the anti-graft operatives would make its findings public either in court or at the appropriate place when necessary.
