Arriving at the Federal High Court in Abuja, former Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano is being charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with fraud and theft of public monies.
A group of EFCC representatives who had driven him there in a white bus earlier escorted him to the court.
According to Original Kel Media, Obiano was put on the anti-graft agency's radar due to accusations of corruption after his term ended in 2022.
Hours after he gave the new state governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the reins of authority, the outgoing governor was finally taken into custody at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
According to the anti-graft bureau, he transferred public cash to his personal account.
"That you, Chief Willie Maduabuchi Obiano, while serving as the executive governor of Anambra State of Nigeria between March 2014 and March 2022, sometime between August 9, 2017, and March 4, 2020 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, indirectly transferred the sum of N261,268,585.00 only through Mr. Willie Nwokoye, your then principal private secretary, into the Fidelity Bank Plc Account No. 5600062873 belonging to Easy Diamond Integrated Link (an entity that
maintained no commercial relationship with the Anambra State Government), and that money was spent on things unrelated to or unconnected to the state's security issues. You had a reasonable expectation that these things were part of the proceeds of your illegal activity, which was theft and corruption, and as a result, you committed an offense that was punishable by Section 15 (2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) in 2012 and under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.
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