The bail that was previously granted to Mohammed Usman, the third defendant in the 14-count money laundering charge brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against the former Accountant-General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris, has been revoked by Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting in Maitama.
Usman, who served as the Director of the Federation Account, and a man named Godfrey Olusegun Akindele are accused of diverting public funds totaling about N109.4 billion using the account of a business called Gezawa Commodity Market & Exchange Limited, the third defendant in the case, in collusion with the suspended AGF.
Usman was absent when the trial Judge entered the courtroom around 9:20am, though his lawyer, Ibrahim Ishaku, SAN, notified the court that he was held up in a gridlock.
The court had on July 28, granted the former AGF bail in the sum of N5bn with two sureties which it stressed must be a Director and a Permanent Secretary. The court equally granted the 2nd and 3rd defendants bail in the sum of N2bn each with two sureties that must be Directors.
As part of their bail, the defendants were barred from traveling out of Abuja, even as they were ordered to surrender their international passports and undertake not to procure alternate passports during the pendency of the case. The defendants were equally ordered to depose to an affidavit of assurance to abide by all their bail conditions.
