By Nkechi Eze
The Abuja Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday, 11 December 2025, arraigned the Commandant of the Nigeria Peace Corps, Dickson Akon, alongside the Corps’ Director of Finance, Omolola Aminat Ahmed, before Justice H. B. Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, over alleged criminal misappropriation of N60 million.
In an official signed statement, the Commission’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed that the two senior officials were docked on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and criminal conversion of funds belonging to the Corps.
According to the charge sheet, the defendants were accused of conspiring in 2024 to misappropriate funds allocated for official use. One of the counts alleges that they dishonestly converted N46 million out of N60 million meant for the execution of a contract for the supply of Corps badges.
Charge one reads: “That you, Dickson Akon and Omolola Aminat Ahmed, in the year 2024 at Abuja, FCT, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did agree among yourselves to do an illegal act, to wit: criminal misappropriation, and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 96 of the Penal Code Laws of the FCT.”
Count two states: “That you, Dickson Akon and Omolola Aminat Ahmed, in the year 2024 at Abuja, FCT, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did agree among yourselves and dishonestly converted to your personal use the sum of N46,000,000.00 (Forty-Six Million Naira only) out of the sum of N60,000,000.00 (Sixty Million Naira only) meant for the execution of a contract for the supply of badges.”
Both defendants pleaded not guilty when the charges were read.
Following their plea, prosecution counsel Khalid Sanusi applied for a date for the commencement of trial. Justice Yusuf subsequently adjourned the matter to 25 February 2026.
The judge also granted the defendants bail in the sum of N5 million each, with one surety in like sum. The sureties, the court ruled, must be reputable persons resident in Abuja.
