Political figure from Kogi smiling as EFCC transfers him and others from Abuja to Lagos due to N1.4 billion bank fraud

The New Nigeria Peoples Party candidate for the Kogi State House of Assembly, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi, who was detained in Abuja for allegedly stealing N1.4 billion from a bank, has been transferred to Lagos State.

Atumeyi, who is running for the Ankpa 11 Constituency seat in the State Assembly, was detained on October 30 with two other people with N326 million and $140,500 in cash.

Atumeyi and the other suspects were flown into Lagos in the early hours of November 2 to continue the investigation into the scam, according to EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren.

Uwujaren claims that Atumeyi will reportedly be questioned by a different team of agents at the Lagos Command of the Commission.

The EFCC detained Atumeyi and two other people, Joshua Dominic and Abdulmalik Salau Femi, a former bank employee, for allegedly hacking into a commercial bank’s system and robbing the organization of more than N1.4 billion.