Press Release
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| Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye |
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 to Bukola Saraki 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
allegedly 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
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