EFCC
Press Release
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.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
10th March, 2015
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