However, another $2.2bn was alleged to have gone missing through money laundering, fund diversion and misappropriation in recent times. The affected persons include two former Ekiti State governors, Kayode Fayemi and Ayo Fayose; former Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle; two former Enugu State governors, Chimaroke Nnamani and Sullivan Chime; former Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Adamu; former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Others are former Rivers State governor, Peter Odili; former Abia State governor, Theodore Orji; former Gombe State governor, Danjuma Goje; former Sokoto State governor, Aliyu Wamako; former Bayelsa State governor, Timipre Sylva; and former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido. Diezani is being probed over several alleged money laundering cases running into several billions of naira and millions of dollars. “Rest assured that these cases will be revisited because the EFCC believes that no case should be swept under the carpet.

Source: Punch January 14, 2024 07:08 UTC