EFCC arraigns Peace Corps commandant, Dickson Akon, finance director over N60 million fraud
The {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee(EFCC), Abuja Zonal Directorate has arraigned the Commandant of the Nigeria Peace Corps, Dickson Akon, and the Director of Finance, Omolala Aminat Ahmed, over alleged misappropriation of N60 million allotted for badge provides.
The arraignment happened on the Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court docket, Abuja, earlier than Justice H. B. Yusuf, with the defendants dealing with a two-count cost of felony misappropriation of funds.
The event comes amid heightened scrutiny of public company spending, following a number of high-profile EFCC investigations into alleged corruption and diversion of presidency funds.
The EFCC stated the defendants have been arraigned on a two-count cost punishable underneath Part 96 of the Penal Code Legal guidelines of the FCT.
The primary rely reads: “That you just, Dickson Akon and Omolola Aminat Ahmed within the 12 months 2024 at Abuja, FCT, throughout the jurisdiction of this honorable court docket did agree amongst yourselves to do an unlawful act, to wit felony misappropriation and thereby dedicated an offence punishable underneath Part 96 of the Penal Code Legal guidelines of the FCT.”
The second rely alleges: “That you just, Dickson Akon and Omolola Aminat Ahmed within the 12 months 2024 at Abuja, FCT, throughout the jurisdiction of this honorable court docket did agree amongst yourselves and dishonestly transformed to your private use the sum of N46,000,000.00 (Forty Six Million Naira solely) out of the sum of N60,000,000.00 (Sixty Million Naira solely) meant for the execution of contract for the provision of badges.”
Each defendants pleaded not responsible to all costs when the court docket learn them out. Following the pleas, prosecution counsel, Khalid Sanusi, requested a trial graduation date.
Justice Yusuf adjourned the matter to February 25, 2026, and granted the defendants bail of N5 million every with one surety in the identical quantity. The sureties are required to be of respected character and residents of Abuja.
Earlier in 2025, the fee introduced six officers of the Kwara State Common Fundamental Schooling Board (SUBEB) earlier than a excessive court docket in Ilorin over an alleged N96 million fraud, the place the accused have been charged with felony breach of belief and misappropriation of public funds entrusted to them of their official roles.
In that matter, the court docket set a trial date after the costs have been learn and the defendants pleaded not responsible, highlighting that EFCC motion usually follows comparable patterns of court docket proceedings in alleged public fund misuse circumstances.
One other high-profile case concerned the previous Managing Director of the Asset Administration Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and others, who have been arraigned on a number of counts associated to an alleged N76 billion and $31.5 million fraud tied to the dealing with of Arik Airline’s belongings. In that occasion the EFCC charged the defendants with theft and abuse of workplace, and contested bail because of the severity of the {economic} allegations.
Extra lately, the fee prosecuted a former chair of the Nigeria Social Insurance coverage Belief Fund (NSITF) on an eight-count cost over alleged conversion and laundering of roughly N1 billion in funds. In that case, the defendant pleaded not responsible and the court docket processed bail and set additional hearings, reflecting the EFCC’s continued deal with main {financial} misconduct circumstances involving senior officers.