The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on March 19 arraign a former Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals, MDG, to Bukola Saraki, ex-governor of Kwara State, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye at a Federal High Court, Ilorin Kwara State.
Moronfoye, who is also the incumbent Commissioner for Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed administration, will be arraigned 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, by awarding contracts to the tune of over N200 million 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 the 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 was alleged to have 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 N171.99 million was awarded to Chemiroy Nigeria Limited.
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