EXCLUSIVE: Acting AGF, Anamekwe Nwabuoku under Probe for Corruption

The newly appointed overseer of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, has a heavy corruption dossier and is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Economic Confidential can authoritatively report.

Nwabuoku was on Sunday appointed to oversee the office in the absence of the suspended AGF, Ahmed Idris, who has been in EFCC custody for over a week while undergoing investigation for fraud to the tune of 80 billion naira.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Nwabuoku will oversee the affairs of the office during the pendency of Idris’ investigation.

The Overseer of OAGF however has massive corruption hanging on his neck from the previous positions of responsibility he held in the course of his career.

According to credible sources familiar with his antecedents, the EFCC is investigating him for a series of graft allegations and Nwabuoku is known to visit the headquarters of the anti-corruption agency on a regular basis as part of the investigation routine.

Some of the allegations against him include overpayment to himself in previous MDAs he served.

Economic Confidential gathered that some of the properties he acquired fraudulently have been recovered by anti-corruption agencies.

One of the sources informed Economic Confidential that perhaps his major financial crime was allegedly committed while he was the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) at the Ministry of Defence where he was said to have enriched himself with internal security funds.

He was allegedly involved in other fraudulent activities and using the Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMIS) to steal the salaries of federal government staff.

The GIFMIS is an IT-based system for budget management and accounting. It was adopted as part of a wider Public Service Reform Strategy by the federal government of Nigeria starting in the early 2000s. Nwabuoku however compromised the system and made away with humongous amount of money.

Asked to explain why the federal government opted to appoint a man with such questionable records to oversee an office vacated by an allegedly corrupt AGF, a top official in the Presidency said Nwabuoku was the most senior official in the office.

“He is not acting AGF but overseeing OAGF as the most senior director in the office,” the official declared.

Nwabuoku has few months left to reach the mandatory retirement age for civil servants.

https://economicconfidential.com/2022/05/exclusive-acting-agf-anamekwe/

It's only God that knows the criteria bubu is using to choose people into office,who are is advicers self?
This old man should prove us wrong once now

I doubt the veracity of this but if it's true then it's fair to say there's something dodgy about Buhari.

Treasure17:
I doubt the veracity of this but if it's true then it's fair to say there's something dodgy about Buhari.

why won't you doubt when he is from your region. But if it's Yoruba or hausa, you will quickly agree even without reading the whole story

Said it hear before that the level of corruption under this regime can act MONEY HEIST 6-16 some apc erats came at me.
In addition to this investigation, the formal agf before the 80b thief just returned 6.5b to efcc.

shigishege:
why won't you doubt when he is from your region. But if it's Yoruba or hausa, you will quickly agree even without reading the whole story

Assumption is not a sophisticated way to reason.

I suppose this is what is meant by our Federal Character

While Nigeria's teaming youth duke it out here on Nairaland, lobbing jingoistic Molotov cocktails across ethnic and religious frontlines, the nation's parasitic elite simply helps itself to more of our collective wealth unhindered.

Who is going to save the future?

Hamzaaaaaaaa:
It's only God that knows the criteria bubu is using to choose people into office,who are is advicers self?
This old man should prove us wrong once now

Our analogue President relies on a coterie of advisers and security agencies that are fully compromised.
To expect anything stellar from that lot is to suspend reality in the hope that pigs would grow wings.

One of the sources informed Economic Confidential that perhaps his major financial crime was allegedly committed while he was the Director of Finance and Accounts (DFA) at the Ministry of Defence where he was said to have enriched himself with internal security funds.

He was allegedly involved in other fraudulent activities and using the Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMIS) to steal the salaries of federal government staff.

Federal Character...

Ahmed Idris Is Not Nigeria’s First Accountant-General Linked to Fraud. Here Are 2 Others

Ahmed Idris, the immediate former Accountant-General of the Federation, was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged money laundering and diversion of public funds on May 16.

Idris, a Kano State native, is to be prosecuted for the diversion of at least N80 billion public funds allegedly laundered through the award of bogus contracts.

According to the EFCC, the funds from the contracts awarded have been traced to family members and close associates of the accountant-general.



Before his eventual arrest, the commission had continuously accused Idris of ‘dodging’ numerous invitations extended to him to answer questions bothering on misappropriation of public funds.

Following Idris’ arrest, Zainab Ahmed, the minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, announced his indefinite suspension on Wednesday.

Although Idris’ arrest has triggered a lot of reactions online, he is not the first Nigerian accountant-general linked to misappropriation of public funds. Below are a couple of others.

JONAH OGUNNIYI OTUNLA’S N2 BILLION FRAUD CASE


John Otunla

In June 2015, Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla, Idris’ immediate predecessor, was accused of money laundering by the EFCC.

Otunla, alongside eight others, was said to have N2 billion from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) while in office in 2013.

The anti-graft agency alleged that he withdrew the money from ONSA’s account purportedly for the supply of security equipment.

The agency further alleged that the fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Sambo Dasuki, a former National Security Adviser.

In February 2021, Bebia Victor Okangbe, lawyer to Otunla, claimed the federal government entered into ‘an oral non-prosecution agreement’ with his client so he could return some allegedly diverted public funds to the government.

IBAHIM DANKWAMBO’S AUTHORISATION OF N128 BILLION SUBSIDY PAYMENT


Ibrahim Dankwambo

Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, a former Accountant-General of the Federation, who later became Governor of Gombe State, was accused by the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Subsidy Probe of making a questionable N128 billion fuel subsidy payment in 2012.

Dankwambo, who was appointed the Accountant-General of the Federation in 2005, was said to have made a N999 million payment 128 times within 24 hours in 2009.

Dankwambo was also alleged to have released Central Bank cheques reflecting the said amount to 128 purported oil marketers, raising doubts on how all the firms could have imported same volume of fuel and earned the same amount.

Dankwambo would later deny the allegation, stating that his office was not responsible for the payment of subsidy. He also disclosed that after he made some inquiries, he found that the statement used by the committee was that of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), which the AGF had no control over.

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Seems like they all have skeletUns in them cupboards. Lord have mercy!