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Ex-Accountant General begs for time to refund N1.6bn looted funds
A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on July 10, begged a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly siphoned by him & his co-defendant, Felix Nweke.
Nwabuoku and Nweke, a former Deputy Director in the Ministry of Defence, are facing 11 counts of money laundering to the tune of N1.6 billion preferred against them by the EFCC.
National Daily gathered that while Nwabuoku is the 1st defendant in the charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/240/24 dated May 20 and filed May 27 by Ekele Iheanacho, Nweke is the 2nd defendant.
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They were alleged to have perpetrated the act while Nwabuoku served as the Director of Finance and Accounts in the Ministry of Defence between 2019 and 2021.
Nwabuoku was appointed acting AGF on May 20, 2022 under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari after Ahmed Idris was suspended as AGF over alleged N80 billion fraud.
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