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We’re Waiting For You – Governors’ Forum Dare EFCC Over Paris Club Funds

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BEVERLY HILLS, February 16, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has declared that the governors are ready to take on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which is investigating possible diversion of the refund made to states from the excess charges of Paris Club.

This was disclosed by Chairman of the NGF and Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, when he spoke with State House correspondents at the end of the Forum’s meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He said that governors would be waiting to see what the anti-graft agency would come up with insisting that the governors were ready for the EFCC probe and would wait for the outcome of the investigation.

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“We discussed the issue of Paris Club and London Club. We observed that EFCC said it is doing investigations. Yeah, we support the federal government for fighting corruption,” he said.

“We are waiting for the EFCC to come up with what they say is the investigation and come up with the result.”

THEWILL recalls that it was reported last week that the NGF may have used fictitious consultants to divert some of the money from Paris Club which had attracted the attention of the EFCC.

The reports suggested that the EFCC may have questioned the Director General of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Asishana Okauru, over the use of the possible diversion of funds by state governors as it was believed that the governors may have paid the money to phoney companies.

The reports also fingered the Senate President, Bukola Saraki over the abuse of the funds.

However, EFCC has denied that it indicted the 36 state governors and Senate President, Bukola Saraki for allegedly pocketing large slices of the Paris loan refund.

The anti-graft agency, in a statement on its twitter handle, @officialEFCC, said that though investigation was ongoing on the reimbursement paid to state governments for excess Paris club deduction, it was yet to indict any governor or Senate President so far.

“The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been drawn to a report captioned, Nigerian State Governors, Senate President Saraki Pocketed Billions of Naira from Paris Loan Refund, which appeared in the online news portal, Sahara Reporters on Sunday February 12, 2017.”

“The report among others claimed that the Commission has indicted all the governors of the 36 states of the Federation and the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in the ongoing investigation of the reimbursement paid to state governments by the Federal Government for excessive deduction charged to them on account of the Paris Club and other international loans.”

“The Commission wishes to state unequivocally, that no state governor or Senate President has been indicted so far by the investigation which is still.”

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