Abdulrasheed Bawa, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has stated that the ministry has recovered over N30 billion from Idris Ahmed, the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation.
He revealed this during a ministerial briefing held in the presidential villa on Thursday.
The commission is currently suing the suspended AGF for suspected fraud of N109 billion.
“The achievements of the agency from January to December, 2022, gave other recoveries as N134,33,759,574.25, $121,769,076.30, £21,020.00, €156,925.00, ¥21,350.00, CFA300,000.00 among others,” he said.
The EFCC Chairman also addressed a N7.1 billion fraud case against Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State. He said the commission is still pursuing the case.
“The prosecution of Orji Uzor Kalu lasted 12 years or so and he was convicted by the court. He went to the Supreme Court and the court said yes because he was elevated to the Court of Appeal, it cannot come back to the lower court and that he should be retried in Lagos.
“So, we wanted to arraign him almost immediately in Lagos for the prosecution to start all over again and then he went to court, challenging that he has been discharged and acquitted and nobody discharged and acquitted him and we are still pursuing the matters in court here in Abuja. So the matter is still ongoing,” he said.
Bawa stated that the commission is fully committed to recovering the country’s looted assets. He said his leadership will continue to be hard on corruption.
