A Former Nigeiran Governor is being investigated in connection with some business interest in the Gambia. The disgraced governor who owns the Slok airline in the Gambia is also reported to have owned a holiday hotel in Tanji. The Nigerian anti graft commission has included the impoverished nation of the Gambia as among the list of countries to be probed in this high profile graft ever allegedly perpetrated by a Govonor in office. Former Governor Orji Uzor was also reported to have Banking interest in The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Governor has been accused of abuse of office, corruption among other things by the Lagos based Financial Crimes Commission. It is reported that the Govenor uses his office's funds to run his business in the Gambia. It's gathered that his airline was legally registered by The Gambia's law offices called the AG Chambers. His Tanji holiday suit was also registered. There is no immediate comments from the authorities in Banjul. But sources revealed that the Jammeh leadership welcomed investors into the country without conducting background checks. The case of Governor Uzor reminds us about Babanding Futanka Sissohor, the Malian Millionaire who was given official escort while he serving as an investor. Sissohor was later implicated in a Dubai Bank money laundering scam, which prompted the interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for him. Sissohor was also arrested in the United States for trying to bribe local Customs agents in a bid to smuggle helcopters into the Gambia. After serving his imprisonment, the Malian millionaire was deported to the Gambia. He is currently in hiding in Mali as there is an international arrest warrant for him. Below is the full text of the story published by Pana News agency.

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Nigeria's South-east Abia state operated 59 local and and foreign bank accounts while in office, using them to siphon millions of naira in public funds for personal use, according to an affidavit attached to charges against the former governor.

The accounts were in the names of companies owned by the former governor and his cronies, and included 8 in the US and Senegal.

Investigations conducted by the anti-graft Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is currently trying Kalu and four other former state governors, showed that he (Kalu) also had three vessels and landed properties in some parts of the country.

Kalu, who was a presidential candidate under the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in April's general elections, also had interests in banks in The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

His airline, Slok, is based in The Gambia, where he has also acquired other properties including the Tiangi Holiday Resort, an estate and First International Bank.

The former governor is also the owner of the popular local tabloid, The Sun.

Details of the affidavit were published in a local newspaper Thursday, a day after he was refused bail by the Federal High Court in the capital, Abuja.

The court has however fixed Friday for ruling in the bail application by Kalu.

The EFCC had charged Kalu with laundering 3 billion naira (130 naira=US$1).

A judge had earlier ruled that some of the assets be temporarily forfeited to the federal government, but the judgment has yet to be enforced.

Four other former governors from Taraba, Plateau and Jigawa, all states in the north, and South-east Enugu have been slammed with similar charges.

The EFCC, which had accused most of the former governors of the country's 36 states of corruption, is expected to charge more former state executives to court soon.