The Nigeria Police Force has detained a female police officer who was the aide-de-camp (ADC to the embattled former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.
The ADC was arrested alongside other police officers attached to 48-year-old Bello, and is being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Their arrests and detention followed a Thursday night order by the Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, directing their immediate withdrawal from the former governor.
Senior police sources told the Punch on the condition of anonymity because they did not have authorisation to comment publicly on the matter, that the officers were arrested on the suspicion that they aided and abetted Bello’s escape from operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, who had gone to effect his arrest at his Abuja home on Wednesday.
“The ADC and the other police details attached to Yahaya Bello have been arrested and detained.
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“They were arrested on the order of the IG, on the suspicion that they aided and abetted the former governor’s escape from the EFCC on Wednesday,” said one of the sources.
Another source said, “Yahaya Bello’s female ADC and other police officers attached to him were brought to the command this morning, and they’ve been detained for aiding and abetting (the governor’s escape).”
Egbetokun had, on Thursday night, ordered the withdrawal of all police officers attached to Bello.
The order for the withdrawal was contained in a police wireless message issued on Friday morning.
Recall that Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi state, is being sought by the EFCC over alleged N80 billion fraud.
The EFCC has since declared him wanted, while the Nigerian Immigration Service placed him on a watch list following his evasion of arrest.
