A former Senior Special Adviser on Millennium
Development Goals to Bukola Saraki, ex-governor
of Kwara State, and incumbent Commissioner for
Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed
administration, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi
Moronfoye, will on March 19, 2015 be arraigned
by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC before a Federal High Court,
Ilorin Kwara State, for offences bordering on
abuse of office, awarding contracts to his
cronies, embezzlement, diversion of public funds,
and money laundering. Also to be docked by the
anti-graft agency is Ope Saraki, cousin and
Senior Special Adviser on Millennium
Development Goals to Governor Ahmed.
Moronfoye is alleged to have used his position as
the Senior Special Adviser to the former
governor to enrich himself.
Specifically, he allegedly awarded contracts to
the tune of over N200million for the renovation
of Ijagbo Primary Health Centre and the supply
of medical equipments to Health Centres and
Specialist Hospitals within the state, to a
company in which he has interest.
And was sole signatory to the account. Saraki is
also alleged to have abused his office and
laundered state funds for his personal benefit by
awarding inflated contracts to companies owned
by his cronies.
In one of the transactions involving the purchase
of Ambulance buses for hospitals in the state,
Saraki duped the people of Kwara State by
procuring thirteen Hiace buses from a local car
dealer and converting them to ambulance in
place of factory built ambulance for which a
contract of N171, 990,000.00 was awarded to
Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.
Development Goals to Bukola Saraki, ex-governor
of Kwara State, and incumbent Commissioner for
Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed
administration, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi
Moronfoye, will on March 19, 2015 be arraigned
by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC before a Federal High Court,
Ilorin Kwara State, for offences bordering on
abuse of office, awarding contracts to his
cronies, embezzlement, diversion of public funds,
and money laundering. Also to be docked by the
anti-graft agency is Ope Saraki, cousin and
Senior Special Adviser on Millennium
Development Goals to Governor Ahmed.
Moronfoye is alleged to have used his position as
the Senior Special Adviser to the former
governor to enrich himself.
Specifically, he allegedly awarded contracts to
the tune of over N200million for the renovation
of Ijagbo Primary Health Centre and the supply
of medical equipments to Health Centres and
Specialist Hospitals within the state, to a
company in which he has interest.
And was sole signatory to the account. Saraki is
also alleged to have abused his office and
laundered state funds for his personal benefit by
awarding inflated contracts to companies owned
by his cronies.
In one of the transactions involving the purchase
of Ambulance buses for hospitals in the state,
Saraki duped the people of Kwara State by
procuring thirteen Hiace buses from a local car
dealer and converting them to ambulance in
place of factory built ambulance for which a
contract of N171, 990,000.00 was awarded to
Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.
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