Yahaya Bello Orders The Freezing Of All State Govt Accounts
Days after berating his aides over what he described as poor misrepresentation of his administration, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has ordered the freezing of all state and local government accounts effective immediately.
A Thursday statement signed by the Commissioner for Finance, Asiwaju Asiru Idris, said no form of payment should be made to anyone from the government account henceforth.
According to the statement, all “standing orders and investment instructions are hereby canceled forthwith”.
Bello, who is at the end of his eight-year double tenure, is expected to hand over power to the Governor-Elect, Usman Ododo, in January 2024.
Ododo, an ex-Auditor General of Local Government in Kogi under Bello, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate had won the November 11, 2023 Kogi State Governorship Election.
