Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari has denied reports that he “is building a $3m hotel from monies stolen from the Paris-London Club refunds to states.”
A statement by Abdulrazque B. Barkindo ,spokesman of the governors’ forum said “Governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar has said emphatically that he does not even own a plot of land in Lagos not to talk of a hotel.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials in Lagos had reportedly claimed that “they have found a hotel being constructed by Governor Yari of Zamfara state with $3m he stole from London-Paris Club loan refund to Nigerian states.”
That “apart from the $3million, Governor Yari also diverted N500 million from the Paris Club refund to pay off a loan”, an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) source revealed to an online medium.
The medium which reported the story also added that EFCC officials in Lagos revealed that “overall the governor embezzled the sum of N2.2 billion from the N19billion set aside illegally to pay “consultants”, all of which are wrong, harmful, libelous and misleading disclosures.
However, a statement Monday said “Governor Abdulaziz Yari is not building any hotel in Lagos nor were any monies stolen or embezzled from the Paris-London Club refunds to states or from any other source.”
