Suswam's Property Sealed by EFCC in Benue

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sealed off three properties belonging to a former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam.

Our correspondent observed yesterday that the property with inscription of EFCC on them included; the Metropolitan hotel along FMC road, a residential building still under construction by the river side and his family home in HUDCO quarters all in Makurdi.

The State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Michael Gusa, was yet to comment on the matter as calls put through his telephone were not answered at the time of this report.

But, tongues are wagging in the state capital and alleging that the action of the EFCC might not be unconnected with the alleged misappropriation of N107 billion by Suswam as contained in the Justice Elizabeth Kpojime's Panel of Inquiry which indicted 52 other people.

The panel set up by incumbent Governor Samuel Ortom on his assumption of office had alleged that the people fingered tampered with the state funds in various ways during Suswam's reign in the state between 2007 and 2015.

One of the three property in Makurdi sealed by EFCC

Source: Daily Trust