Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has filed twenty-four criminal charges against the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, and four others.
Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba and four others have been accused of offences involving stealing, money laundering, and causing financial loss to the state.
The court documents filed at the Accra High Court mention Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, Faiza Seidu Wuni, Richard Sam-Asante (currently at large), The Aludiba Foundation, and Energy Partners Limited as the accused persons.
Hanan Abdul-Wahab and his wife, and three others have been charged with multiple offences, including stealing, money laundering, and causing over GHC 300 million in financial loss to the state.
The five are facing 24 counts of various offences, which include “stealing, conspiracy, defrauding by false pretences, and the willful dissipation of public funds, in violation of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) and the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044)”.
The charge sheet filed by the AG alleged that Abdul-Wahab, as NAFCO CEO from February 2017 to February 2025, diverted over GH¢50.8 million of company funds under the guise of payments to a supplier.
Abdul-Wahab also transferred an additional GH¢5.49 million to his own company, Aludiba Enterprise, for the supply of food items to NAFCO.
Co-accused Faiza Seidu Wuni is alleged to have laundered more than GH¢13.2 million through her firm, Fa-Hausa Ventures, and caused a further GH¢4.4 million loss to the state.
The Aludiba Foundation and Energy Partners Limited, linked to Abdul-Wahab, have also been charged with receiving and laundering proceeds.
Meanwhile, the case filed at the High Court in Accra is expected to begin soon.
Earlier, the Attorney General accused Hanan Abdul-Wahab of acquiring luxury assets by misappropriating public funds during his tenure.
According to the Attorney General, the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) have traced several properties and bank transactions linked to Abdul-Wahab.
Speaking at the press briefing on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, Dr Dominic Ayine detailed, “As is typical of all investigations conducted by the EOCO, contemporaneous tracing of the proceeds of crime has been undertaken and can confirm that the couple purchased a number of high-end real estate properties from their ill-got wealth”.
“Five-bedroom house bought from Chain Homes Limited between February 2019 and December 2020 at a cost of $1,625,000. Of this amount, Ghs5,758,165.00 (equivalent to $230,841.00) was paid directly from the accounts of the investigated entities. The balance was paid in cash to Chain Homes by the couple.
In July 2020, the couple purchased a 3-bedroom house at Cantonments from Golden Coast Developer Ltd at a cost of $600,000.00 using two of their companies- Fa-Hausa Ventures (owned by the wife) and Fa-Hausa Company Limited (owned jointly by the couple). The land documents are registered in the name of the wife”.
Between October 2019 and February 2021, the couple purchased plots at Finali’s Airport development site for USD $750,000.00. The total payments were made in cash in the name of Faiza Seidu Wuni. Subsequently, in July 2021, Faiza Seidu Wuni signed a contract with a construction company, Mendanha and Sousa Construction Ltd, at a cost of USD$691,650.00 to construct the shell and core of the building. This excludes the cost of architectural designs from Ansara Architecture Pty Ltd, based in South Africa. The building sitting on three plots is now estimated to be valued at about USD$2,5000,000.00.
The couple purchased 0.32-acre government land from one Anthony Duke Essien, a known government land sales agent named in both the demolition of the Nigerian High Commission and the Sale and demolition of the Bulgarian Consulate. Duke Essian used his sister Antoinette Tsiboe Darko, a staff of the Danquah Institute, as a front, to purchase from the Ministry of Lands and the Land Commission at a price of Ghs307,200. Duke Essien then instantly sold the land to Hanan Abdu-Wahab and received about Ghs2,567,000.00.
The payment came from the criminal proceeds from Buffer Stock through Sawtina Enterprise, through Alqarni Enterprise and Hanan himself to Anthony Duke Essien. On the instruction of his brother, Duke Essien, Antoinette then wrote to the Land Commission in March 2020 to instruct them that the lease should be in the name of Hanan Abdul-Wahab.
In May 2020, she made a U-turn and wrote to the Lands Commission to withdraw the documents bearing the name of Hanan Abdul-Wahab and now replace it with his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni. The couple developed four units of 4-bedroom apartments on the said land. The property is yet to be valued”.
The Attorney General further detailed that he has frozen all these assets and will be taking steps to have them confiscated by the state in the course of the criminal proceedings.
Meanwhile, Abdul-Wahab Hanan Aludiba has refuted claims levelled against him by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine.
Abdul-Wahab Hanan Aludiba, in a statement issued on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, stated, “My attention has been drawn to recent statements made by the Honourable Attorney General during a press engagement, in which my name was mentioned in connection with allegations of corruption,” Hanan stated.
“I wish to state, respectfully, that these claims are untrue and do not reflect the facts of the matter.”
“I look forward to the opportunity to present my side and to have my day in court, where I am confident that the truth will be made clear,” he affirmed.