EFCC Questions Former Zamfara Governor Abdulaziz Yari

Breaking: Court summons EFCC, AGF Over Yari’s Property

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday interrogated former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari over alleged illegal financial dealings.

Naija News reports that the former governor was questioned that the Lagos office of the anti-graft agency.

The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren confirmed that the ex-governor was grilled at the Lagos office of the commission, adding that he has been released to go home.

The Federal High Court, Abuja, had on January 26, 2021, ordered the final forfeiture of funds belonging to Yari domiciled in Zenith and Polaris Banks.

While $56, 056.75 was lodged in Polaris Bank, N12.9 million, N11.2m, $303m, N217, 388.04 and $311.8m were kept in different Zenith Bank accounts in the name of Yari and his companies.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the Department of State Services (DSS) has again warned against plans by some people to cause ethnoreligious violence in some parts of the country.
The spokesman of the agency, Dr. Peter Afunanya, disclosed this in a statement made available to Naija News on Wednesday in Abuja.

Afunanya said the latest developments on the alert indicated desperate efforts by these groups to subvert public order.

He said that persons have continued to resort to inciting, unguarded and divisive statements, acts and to pit citizens against one another in order to apparently inflame the embers of tribal and religious discords.

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