BY Peace Akande
Anamekwe Nwabuoku, A former acting accountant general of the federation at the federal high court in Abuja pleaded with Justice James Omotoso to give him more time to refund the public fund allegedly looted by him and the co-defendant in the suit.
The former AG and his co-defendant Felix Nweke are facing an eleven count money laundering charge they preferred against them by the EFCC ( economic and financial crimes commission).
Nwabuoku who served as the director of Finance and Account between 2019 and 2021 as allegedly laundered the whooping sum of 1.6 million naira after he has been appointed other former president Muhammadu Buhari after his predecessor Hammed Idris was suspended as AGF over alleged 80 billion naira fraud.
The EFCC said the offense is contrary to section fifteen (2)(6) and punishable other section fifteen (3) if the money laundering (prohibition) act 2011 (as amended by art no. 1 of 2012), among other count. However, Nweke’s lawyer, Ameka Onyeko, said he client the second defendant has taken step toward settling the matter.