The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on
Wednesday arrested the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva.
A statement signed by EFCC’s Acting Head of Media and
Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the former governor was “picked up at his
Abuja home, at No. 3, Niger Street, Maitama” by the EFCC officials who stormed
the former governor’s home at about 10.00 am.
According to the statement, the embattled governor was
discovered in the house where he was “hiding in a dingy corner in the upper
chamber of his expansive mansion.”
“On arrival at the facility at about 10.00 am, the
Commission’s operatives were told that the ex-governor was not in town but they
insisted on conducting a search on the house having obtained a warrant from the
court.”
