A former Senior Special Adviser on Millennium
Development Goals to Bukola Saraki, ex-governor of
Kwara State, and incumbent Commissioner for
Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed administration,
Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye, will on March 19,
2015 be arraigned by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC before a Federal High Court,
Ilorin Kwara State, for offences bordering on abuse of
office, awarding contracts to his cronies, embezzlement,
diversion of public funds, and money laundering. Also
to be docked by the anti-graft agency is Ope Saraki,
cousin and Senior Special Adviser on Millennium
Development Goals to Governor Ahmed.
Moronfoye is alleged to have used his position as the
Senior Special Adviser to the former governor to enrich
himself.
Specifically, he allegedly awarded contracts to the tune
of over N200million for the renovation of Ijagbo
Primary Health Centre and the supply of medical
equipments to Health Centres and Specialist Hospitals
within the state, to a company in which he has interest.
And was sole signatory to the account. Saraki is also
alleged to have abused his office and laundered state
funds for his personal benefit by awarding inflated
contracts to companies owned by his cronies.
In one of the transactions involving the purchase of
Ambulance buses for hospitals in the state, Saraki
duped the people of Kwara State by procuring thirteen
Hiace buses from a local car dealer and converting
them to ambulance in place of factory built ambulance
for which a contract of N171, 990,000.00 was awarded
to Chemiroy Nigeria Limited. |
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