{"id":67707,"date":"2024-11-27T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=67707"},"modified":"2024-11-27T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T09:44:50","slug":"breaking-detained-kogi-ex-governor-yahaya-bello-arrives-in-abuja-court-amid-heavy-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/27\/breaking-detained-kogi-ex-governor-yahaya-bello-arrives-in-abuja-court-amid-heavy-security\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Detained Kogi Ex-governor, Yahaya Bello Arrives in Abuja Court Amid Heavy Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61285\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Yahaya-Bello-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Yahaya-Bello-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Yahaya-Bello-360x222.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Yahaya-Bello.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has arrived at the High Court sitting at Maitama in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, amid heavy security.<\/p>\n<p>Bello, who was detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, arrived at the court premises around 8:50 am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC had declared Bello wanted in April over allegations of financial fraud and misconduct during his tenure as governor. The anti-graft agency had been investigating Bello for several months, but he had evaded arrest and prosecution until his detention on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bello was arrested in connection with ongoing investigations into alleged fraud during his tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has arrived at the High Court sitting at Maitama in the Federal Capital&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Bello-and-EFCC.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67708,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67707\/revisions\/67708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}