Police Detain Ex-Governor Yahaya Bello’s Security Details For Aiding Escape From EFCC

The Nigeria Police Force has detained a female police officer who served as the aide-de-camp for former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello as well as other security details for aiding his escape from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja.

The ADC was arrested, along with other police officers assigned to 48-year-old Bello, and they are being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Their arrests and incarceration came after the Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, issued an order on Thursday night requiring their immediate departure from the former governor.

Senior police sources, who spoke to PUNCH on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly on the matter, said the officers were arrested on suspicion of assisting Bello’s escape from Economic and Financial Crimes Commission operatives who had gone to arrest him at his Abuja home on Wednesday.

The ADC and the other police details attached to Yahaya Bello have been arrested and detained.

“They were arrested on the order of the IG, on the suspicion that they aided and abetted the former governor’s escape from the EFCC on Wednesday,” one of the sources said.

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Another source said, “Yahaya Bello’s female ADC and other police officers attached to him were brought to the command this morning, and they’ve been detained for aiding and abetting (the governor’s escape).”