Ex-Zamfara Governor in EFCC net over links to accountant-general’s N80 billion probe

Former Governor of Zamfara State Abdulaziz is cooling his heels with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who is holding him for being linked with the agency’s ongoing investigation of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris.

Yari was taken into custody on Sunday at his residence in Abuja.

The AGF has been in the EFCC custody since May 16 facing investigators over allegations of corruption to the tune of N80 billion.

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.
Yari happened to be one of his suspected accomplices hence, the antigraft agency arrested him on sunday.
It was alleged that Yari was involved in suspicious transactions with Mr Idris running into 20 billion Naira.

Yari has been a regular customer of the EFCC having been repeatedly held and questioned by the antigraft body over allegations that he criminally diverted billions in Zamfara’s funds kept in a bank.

Yari’s tenure as Governor of Zamfara spanned 2007 to 2019. The terrorist outlaws, commonly called bandits, who have virtualy taken over parts of the State started ravaging communities while he was in the saddle.

A state report instituted by Mr Yari’s successor Bello Matawalle indicted him (Mr Yari) for mismanaging the ethnic conflict between Hausa and Fulani communities, leading to the armed banditry that is ravaging the Nigeria’s north-west geopolitical zone and beyond.