Gov Abdulrazaq receives N111m recovered Kwara loot from EFCC

By Our correspondent

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC)  has handed the sum of N111,428,891 being the cash recovered from looted funds belonging to Kwara State to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.

According to the agency, the money was retrieved from former political office holders, traditional rulers and top civil servants in the State.

Sharu disclosed that the recovery was made from suspected state treasury looters, who allegedly misappropriated the land property of Harmony Holdings while others diverted funds meant for small and medium credit scheme.

He said the agency was ready to support the state government in keeping track of political office holders and key officers, warning that “it would no longer be business as usual.”

Abdulrazag ,who assured that the government will not use the money to award contracts, said that the recovered loot could lift thousands of people out of poverty if we’ll utilised.

Governor Abdulrazaq said his government was replicating the federal government’s social investment programmes in the fulfillment of his promise to reduce the menace of poverty in the State.

“When I told people I was coming, they said I was going to Lion’s den, and I said ‘No’, EFCC belongs to us. We don’t need to be afraid of them unless we have something to hide. The Federal government acted well by supporting the anti-graft agency.”