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The charges centre on alleged diversion of Kogi State Government’s funds during Mr Bello’s eight years as governor of the state.<\/p>\n
Former Governor of Kogi State<\/a><\/strong>, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, pleaded not guilty to the N80.2 billion money laundering charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n He pleaded not guilty to all 18 counts read to him at the Federal High Court in Abuja.<\/p>\n The charges centre on alleged diversion of Kogi State Government’s funds during his eight…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The charges centre on alleged diversion of Kogi State Government’s funds during Mr Bello’s eight years as governor of the state. Former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, pleaded not guilty to the N80.2 billion money laundering charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He pleaded not guilty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10182,18032,6495,7578,11129,9119,5108,50178,257,4687,393,254,33667],"class_list":["post-186581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arraigns","tag-bello","tag-billion","tag-charges","tag-efcc","tag-laundering","tag-money","tag-n80-2","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yahaya"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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