The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has arrested former Zamfara State governor, AbdulAziz Yari, in connection with the agency’s ongoing investigation of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, (AGF), Ahmed Idris.
The embattled AGF, Idris, who is under criminal investigation, has been in the EFCC custody since May 16, facing investigators over allegations of corruption to the tune of N80 billion.
Yari was reportedly arrested yesterday at his residence in Abuja days after he won the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC)’s ticket for Zamfara-West senatorial election holding next year. He won unopposed.
The investigators are working with the lead that he allegedly conspired with others to steal public funds which, by his role, he was meant to safeguard. One of his suspected accomplices is ex-governor Yari, according to sources.
The sources said suspicious transactions between Idris and Yari were “in the area of N20 billion”.
Recall that last year, Yari was repeatedly held and questioned by the anti-graft law enforcement agency over allegations that he criminally diverted billions of Zamfara’s funds kept in a bank.
Yari was governor of a State in the impoverished North-West geo-political zone between 2007 and 2019. Under his reign, terrorist outlaws, commonly called bandits, started ravaging communities.
A State report commissioned by the ex-governor’s successor, Bello Matawalle, indicted him for mismanaging the ethnic conflict between Hausa and Fulani communities, leading to the armed banditry that is ravaging the North-West region and beyond.
