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.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
10th March, 2015