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Senate Orders EFCC To Unfreeze Patience Jonathan’s Accounts

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Channel: Viable Tv · 2017 · News & Politics

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The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has asked Stanbic IBTC Bank and Zenith Bank to unfreeze two accounts linked to Patience Jonathan, the wife of Nigeria’s former President.

The members of the committee queried the powers of the EFCC to serve court orders on banks, when the anti-graft agency was not part of the judiciary.

The members of the panel drilled representatives of the banks who stated that they only acted on the court order mandating them to freeze the said accounts.

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The members of the panel criticized the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC for the continued freezing of the accounts belonging to Mrs. Jonathan, but they were particular in their criticism of the concerned banks for failing to execute the new court order vacating the order freezing the accounts.

The members of the investigative panel therefore accused the banks of acting illegally.
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TRK-UP-Sen. Mao Ohunabunwa -Abia North‎,PDP

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In his ruling, the Chairman of the Committee Sen. Samuel Anyanwu ‎ordered the Banks to unfreeze the said accounts and come along with other documents relating to it.

TRK-UP-Sen. Samuel Anyanwu-Imo East,PDP

‎The committee is made up of members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

‎Recall that Patience Jonathan had petitioned the Senate through her lawyer, Mr. Charles Ogboli (SAN), protesting the freezing of her accounts in seven banks without court orders.‎ END!!!

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