The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday, July 21, arraign a former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, before Justice A.O. Adeyemi Ajayi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja.
Idris will
be arraigned alongside three others: Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu
Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited on a 14-count charge of
stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109, 485,572,691.9.
One of the
counts reads………………….
“That you,
Ahmed Idris while being the Accountant General of the Federation and Godfrey
Olusegun Akindele while being the Technical Assistant to the Accountant General
of the Federation between February and November, 2021, at Abuja in the Abuja
Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, in such
capacity, entrusted with certain property, to wit: N84,390,000,000(Eighty-Four
Billion, Three Hundred and Ninety Million Naira) committed criminal breach of
trust in respect of the said property, when you dishonestly received the said
sum from the Federal Government of Nigeria through Godfrey Olusegun Akindele
trading under the name and style of Olusegun Akindele & Co., and you
thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 315 of the Penal Code Act
Cap 532 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990.”
Recall
that on May 16, Idris was arrested by the operatives of the anti-graft agency
over his alleged involvement in N84 billion fraud.
Three days
after his arrest, Idris was suspended by the Minister of Finance, Budget and
National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, to enable him to face his probe.
He was
released on bail from the custody of the anti-graft agency on June 1.
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