The former Accountant General of the Federation, AG-F, Ahmed Idris, says he cooperated with EFCC investigators in relation to the alleged N109 billion fraud over which he is now being tried with three others, because he believed he would not be prosecuted.

Idris further said he volunteered to cooperate with officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by  providing them with all the information they needed to ease their investigation, believing  that he would not be tried in court. 
He made the revelations in one of the 13 different statements he made to EFCC investigators, which were tendered before the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja, where he is now being tried along with others.
According to Idris in the statement, dated May 25 , 2022: “All along, I have cooperated with the EFCC officials and have volunteered information to demonstrate my commitment to make the investigation as easier and speedy.
“Any statement I have made before or I am making now are based on my firm assumption, belief and understanding that by being open and aligning myself with statements made by principal suspects, such statements will not be used against me and eventually lead to my trial or prosecution.
“In view of foregoing statements, I wish to accept the met figure of N13.2billion I am confronted with, subject to the reservations expressed in this statement.”
However, his Counsel, Chief Chris Uche, SAN, objected to the admissibility of the statements, noting that his client was hoodwinked by the investigators to make the statements , which contained some admissions.
Idris, his former Technical Assistant, Godfrey Olusegun Akindele; a director in the office of the AG-F, Mohammed Kudu Usman, and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited (said to be owned by Idris) are being tried by the EFCC on a 14-count charge bordering on stealing and criminal breach of trust to the tune of N109 billion
At the last hearing in the ongoing trial-within-trial, being conducted to ascertain whether or not Idris offered the statements voluntarily, Uche insisted that the investigators promised his client that he would not be prosecuted.
However, one of the investigators, Mahmoud Tukur, denied Uche’s claim.
Tukur, the immediate past Head of Chairman Monitoring Unit, CMU, II of the EFCC, who testified as the second prosecution’s witness in the trial-within-trial said, “We did not promise him anything,” 
When asked earlier by the prosecuting counsel, Oluwaleke Atolagbe if he promised Idris that he (Idris) would not be prosecuted, Tukur denied ever making any promise to the former AG-F.
His words,  “I never did. And, as the head of the unit, I can answer authoritatiively to that. The first defendant was a senior public servant.
“He knows that it is not within my capacity to make such promises, because my duty is just to investigate and report my findings.
“In all the statements he wrote, he was cautioned and part of the cautionary words is that whatever he writes may be used as evidence in court.”
Another EFCC operative, Hayatudeen Suleiman, who was the first prosecution witness. He was also, part of the investigation team and had, while testifying also denied that any promise was made to Idris. (Source: The Nation).