Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Yahaya Bello: Deposits into Kogi LGAs went into Multiple Private Accounts - Witness

The trial of the former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, continued on Friday, January 30, 2026, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, with the Seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7, Olomotane Egoro, a compliance officer with Access Bank Plc disclosing that inflows from the state’s local governments were made into multiple private bank accounts in a structured manner that evaded Currency Transaction Report, CTR to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU. Bello is being prosecuted before Justice Nwite by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, E…