BY: News Peddlers
Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama Abuja, on Friday remanded the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris over alleged 109bn fraud.
Justice A. O. Adeyemi Ajayi ordered that the former AGF Ahmed Idris and other three co-defendants: Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. Should be remanded in Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of their bail applications.
In May how Mr Idris was apprehended in Kano, following his refusal to honour EFCC’s invitation concerning an alleged fraud investigation.
Subsequently, the Minister of Finance, Zainab
Ahmed, informed
Mr Idris of his suspension, in a letter dated May 18.
His
suspension is without pay, Mrs Ahmed’s letter stated.
The suspension, Mrs Ahmed said, was in line with Public Service
Rules to give room for proper and unhindered investigation.
This
paper reported in June how the anti-graft agency confiscated multi-billion
naira assets linked to Mr Idris’ suspected proceeds of crime.
After the pleas of the defendants were taken, Mr Idris’ lawyer,
Chris Uche, also a senior advocate, made an oral application for the bail of
his client.
However,
Mr Jacobs opposed the oral bail application, insisting that it must be done in
writing.
The trio were arraigned alongside a company, Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited, on a 14-count charge bordering on gratification, abuse of office and money laundering to the tune of over N109 billion fraud.