Thug reportedly gunned down while snatching ballot box in Kogi

2023 Elections: Thug reportedly gunned down while snatching ballot box in Kogi

Idris Ojochenemi Akayaba, a ballot box snatcher, was reportedly shot dead in Ayangba, Kogi State while attempting to steal electoral materials during the 2023 elections.

2023 Elections: Thug reportedly gunned down while snatching ballot box in Kogi

Despite the largely free and fair elections across the country, some states, Lagos, Kogi and Borno inclusive were faced with voting difficulties at the hands of thugs and other miscreants. At the Kogi State University community polling centre on Saturday, February 25, security operatives reportedly shot Idris dead for making a run with a ballot box. Reports suggest that Akayaba had recently completed the NYSC program. His photos have circulated the internet space with questions on how he got involved in the disruption of the electoral process.

2023 Elections: Thug reportedly gunned down while snatching ballot box in Kogi

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EFCC arraigns Kogi Governor’s nephew over N10 billion fraud

EFCC arraigns Kogi Governor's nephew over N10 billion fraud

Aliyu Bello, a nephew to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has been remanded in prison by a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, over alleged N10.2 billion fraud.

He was arraigned alongside one Dauda Sulaiman and one Abdulsalami Hudu of the Kogi State House Administration by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
They were arraigned on a 10-count charge of misappropriation and money laundering, EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Thursday, December 15.

The statement read:
“Bello and Sulaiman are accused of fraudulently withdrawing a sum of N10,270,556,800 (Ten Billion, Two Hundred and Seventy Million, Five Hundred and Fifty-six Thousand Eight Hundred Naira), from the Kogi State treasury which they delivered to a Bureau de Change operator, Rabiu Tafada, in Abuja to keep or change to foreign currencies for personal gains,” 
They have both been remanded in prison by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions.