Yahaya Bello
Don’t involve Bello’s children in corruption fight, rights group tells EFCC
The Child’s Rights Advocacy Network (CHILDRANE) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to leave out the children of former Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, from the probe of N80 billion money laundering charges it has levelled against him.
The spokesperson, CHILDRANE, Emmanuel Abah, during a press briefing on Friday in Abuja, denounced the breach of privacy and other safeguards of Bello’s children via repeated references to them in EFCC’s press conferences and statements.
Abah emphasised the need to protect children’s rights during legal processes.
He warned that “Nigerian child, our hope of any meaningful tomorrow as a nation, were now increasingly an endangered species.
”The EFCC had confirmed the receipt of the refund of $760,000 paid as advance school fees by Bello for his children at the American International School, Abuja.
The school had asked the EFCC to provide “authentic banking details” for the refund of fees paid for the children of the former governor.
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But Abah condemned the action of the school for publicly disclosing her refund of the school fees paid for the children by their family to the EFCC, especially as the action potentially violated the judgment in a case by the Bello family in which the school was a party, while summarily jeopardising the well-being of children to whom she owed a direct duty of care.
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