The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, remanded the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris and his co-defendants: Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman, in prison pending the determination of their bail applications.
The trio were arraigned alongside a company, Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Ltd, on a 14-count charge bordering on gratification, abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of over N109 billion fraud.
The presiding judge, Justice Adeyemi Ajayi, ordered that Idris and his co-defendants be kept in Kuje pending the hearing of their bail applications on July 27.
The remand order followed the arraignment of the former Accountant-General yesterday, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). They are being prosecuted on a 14-count charge of stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109, 485,572,691.9.
The EFCC alleged that Ahmed Idris, between February and December, 2021 at Abuja, being a public servant by virtue of his position as the Accountant-General of the Federation accepted from Olusegun Akindele, a gratification in the aggregate sum of N15,136,221,921.46, which sum was converted to the United States Dollars by the said Olusegun Akindele, and which sum did not form part of your lawful remuneration but as a motive for accelerating the payment of 13% derivation to the 9 oil producing States in the Federation.
Through the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 155 of the Penal Code Act (Cap. 532) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and punishable under the same section.
