An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, detective, Mahmud Tukur, has denied promising the former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, leniency in exchange for indicting the former Minister of Finance and others.
Idris had told the Federal Capital Territory High Court that the EFCC deceived him to admit to the allegations against him. The ex-AGF specifically said the EFCC told him they wanted to use him to get the Minister of Finance and some governors to receive derivation funds.
reports that Idris and his co-defendants are standing trial on 14 charges of stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109.5 billion. The EFCC arraigned him alongside Godfrey Akindele, Mohammed Kudu Usman, and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited in July 2022. However, at the proceedings, Tukur, who was the second prosecution witness in the trial-within-trial, denied that the commission made such a promise to Idris.
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