A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced a former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Chukwunyere Anamekwe Nwabuoku, to 72 years imprisonment over N868.46 million fraud.
In a Monday statement posted on its X (formerly Twitter) account, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) confirmed the conviction and sentencing of Mr Nwabuoku for money laundering, after the court found him guilty of all charges.
“The former Acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Chukwunyere Anamekwe Nwabuoku, who was prosecuted by the EFCC at the Federal High Court, Abuja, for money laundering involving N868.46 million, has been convicted and sentenced to jail for 72 years,” the agency said.
The alleged offence, according to the EFCC, contravenes section 18 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended by Act No. 1 of 2012), and is punishable under section 15(3) of the Act.
The commission said Mr Nwabuoku committed the offences while serving as the director of finance and accounts in the Ministry of Defence between 2019 and 2021.
The former AGF had filed a no-case submission, which was dismissed by the court in November 2025.
Mr Nwabuoku was appointed acting accountant-general of the federation on May 20, 2022, by the late President Muhammadu Buhari, following the suspension of Mr Ahmed Idris over alleged N80 billion fraud.
However, he was removed from the position in July 2022, barely weeks after assuming office, following reports that he was under EFCC investigation.
He is the latest high-profile individual to be sentenced after the Federal High Court in Abuja last week sentenced the former Managing Director of the Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Mr Robert Orya, to 490 years’ imprisonment following his conviction in a N2.4 billion fraud case.
In a statement shared via its official X handle on Thursday, the anti-graft agency confirmed that Justice F.E. Messiri of the Abuja High Court has sentenced the former NEXIM boss, who served from 2011 to 2016, to 10 years’ imprisonment for each of the 49 counts brought against him in the N2.4 billion fraud case.