The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State of fraud of N22 billion.
This allegation follows a report of an investigation which began in 2016 but was released to their correspondent yesterday.
The report states that the governor, between June 30, 2015 and March 2018 ordered the withdrawal of N21.3 billion from four accounts which belong to the state government in three banks.
See EFCC report released to Punch:
We investigated four bank accounts belonging to two Benue State Government’s agencies. The first agency is the Benue State Government House which has an account in UBA with number 1017348051 and another account in GTB with number 0027952907. These accounts received N 1, 916, 635, 206 from the state’s allocation between June 30, 2015 and March 2018. ”The second government agency is the Bureau of Internal Affairs and Special Services. The agency has an account with UBA with number 1007540119 and a First Bank account with number 2023788057. Between the same period, the accounts were credited with N19, 468, 951, 590 from the Benue State allocation.
