Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
Another sum of N148 million has been recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as looted money from Kwara State and the sum had been returned to the state government.
Commissioner for Finance and Planning, Olasumbo Florence Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in Ilorin, on Friday said, “Government has received a bank draft for another N148,049,580:81 looted funds which EFCC recently recovered from some officials of the past administration”.
According to her, the money was received by her, on Thursday, on behalf of the state government by her humble self commending EFCC for its patriotic efforts to stamp out corruption and abuse of public office.
The commissioner pledged that the money would be duly appropriated and deployed to serve the public that it was meant for.
EFCC Zonal Head in Ilorin, Kazeem Oseni, had earlier during a recent courtesy visit to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq announced the recovery of new loots for the government in recent time.
Governor AbdulRazaq, in turn, at the time, commended the anti-graft agency which he observed had continued to recover funds stolen from public treasury for his government promising that the funds would be judiciously used.
This according to him, included utilising the recovered money for social investment programmes of the government.