Nigeria, Nov. 13 -- The trial of a former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, continued on Wednesday at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja, as a Zenith Bank compliance officer testified about multiple cash withdrawals from Kogi State Government accounts.

Mashelia Bata, the sixth prosecution witness (PW6), told the court that between 2016 and 2018, large sums were withdrawn from the state's accounts, allegedly by Abdulsalami Hudu and others.

Led in evidence by EFCC lawyer Kemi Pinheiro, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Bata described a pattern of multiple cash withdrawals and transfers from Kogi State Government accounts between 2016 and 2018, allegedly conducted by Mr Hudu and others.

"On February 12, 2016, th...