News: Former Bayelsa Governor, Timipre Sylva arrested by EFCC

Former Bayelsa governor, Timipre Sylva has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Timipre Sylva was arrested today Wednesday May 8th and interrogated in connection with fraud charges, according to a statement released by the anti-graft agency today.

EFCC said in the statement that the former governor "was found hiding in a dingy corner in the upper chamber of his expansive mansion," in Abuja after his staff told them he was not in town when they went to make the arrest.

Find a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, after the cut...