Nigeria: EFCC Files Fresh Corruption Case Against Ex-Governor Sylva

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday filed fresh charges of corruption against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, at a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Mr. Sylva is being charged alongside three others - Francis Okokuro, Gbenga Balogun, and Samuel Ogbuku - for allegedly using three companies, Marlin Maritime Limited, Eat Catering Services Limited, and Haloween-Blue Construction and Logistics Limited to move about N19.2 billion from Bayelsa State coffers between 2009 and 2012, under false of using the withdrawn money to augment salaries of the state government workers.

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