Nigeria, Feb. 1 -- Two prosecution witnesses on Friday gave details of how a former acting Accountant General of the Federation, Chukwunyere Anamekwe, opened and used multiple bank accounts to divert funds belonging to the Federal Ministry of Defence.

The witnesses narrated this in their separate testimonies at the Federal High Court in Abuja where the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Mr Anamekwe on nine counts of money laundering involving about N868.5 million.

In the charges filed in May 2024 and later amended from 11 to nine counts, EFCC accused Mr Anamekwe of perpetrating the alleged fraud while serving in the defence ministry as Director, Finance and Account, between 2019 and 2021. This was prior to hi...