By Suleiman Idris, Abuja
The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sealed off three properties belonging to Gabriel Suswam, a former governor of Benue State.
His hotel, 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 were among properties that operatives of the Commission used red pain to mark sealed off.
There are insinuations in Makurdi, the state capital alleging that the action of the EFCC might not be unconnected with the alleged misappropriation of N107 billion by Suswam when he was the governor of the state 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.