The Delta State Government has suspended the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Morals and Diaspora, Ms. Favour Obakoro, popularly known as Vida Modelo, effective immediately.
The suspension was announced in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Kingsley Eze Emu.
According to the statement, the move is to allow security agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into allegations that Obakoro used her position to fraudulently obtain money from various individuals to enable them obtain work permits to work abroad.
He reportedly collected over N100 million in the alleged scam.
Some of her telephone conversations were surreptitiously recorded.