Former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and two others are to be remanded in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Facility, Kuje, pending the hearing of their bail applications on July 27.
This order was pronounced by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Friday.
The other defendants are Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman, and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Ltd.
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.
Mr Idris and the other three defendant who pleaded not guilty of the charges leveled against them were arraigned at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on 14 count charge bordering on alleged stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109.4 billion.
Count eight read : “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”.
Meanwhile, Chris Uche, Mr Idris’s lawyer asked the court to permit his client to continuing the bail he was granted by the EFCC.
