The ICPC director expressed worry that lack of transparency and accountability had caused a huge chunk in the basic education sector.
The EFCC, in the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/573/2022, is prosecuting Mr Bello and three others on an alleged N3 billion money laundering charge.
He, however, refused to grant a relief seeking compensation in the sum of N1 billion against the defendants.
Zhang Zulin, former vice governor of southwest China’s Yunnan province, has been arrested on suspicion of bribery.
In a statement on Monday, the anti-graft agency warned that any unauthorised use of its uniforms would be met with stiff sanctions henceforth.
The AGF recently stressed that public officeholders guilty of corruption should not receive a state pardons.
The EFCC chairman said that vote buying was a financial crime and the commission would not allow it anywhere.
“This technology, as I have mentioned, has the capability to address numerous issues,” he said.
“Local governments must be governed by democratically elected people from the grassroots,” said the ICPC chair.
The operators of the now-shutdown exchange services were accused of deliberately concealing the origin of criminally obtained funds.
