FG Freezes Jonathans Associates Account

The bank accounts of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s associates has been secretly frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission otherwise known as (EFCC) . 

This step was taken by the anti-graft agency to prevent looters from hurriedly dispensing looted funds from the accounts to other accounts. An associate of the transition committee of the APC on Friday stated that this has become necessary in view of the huge sum of the alleged theft of public resources by the affected persons.

The source stated that PDP was unenlightened on the plans of the Federal Government, especially on security.

The source added,

“This is not a matter of lobby or any politics that should be shoved aside; what is at stake is the nation’s security and nothing more.

“When the PDP says the current anti-corruption drive is selective, we continue to laugh at them because they do not seem to know what is at stake at all. If only they know, all the noise they have been making won’t be made at all.

“How many of these PDP elements know that just one individual benefitted from a single NIMASA transaction to the tune of N13bn, not to talk of about $57m he was said to have benefitted from controversial contract deals?

“Are these the things they ask us to sweep under the carpet? Certainly, we cannot because apart from the angle of the impunity and financial recklessness, does it make any sense if any responsible government allows such individuals, who had threatened war in the event that Jonathan did not win to have such huge sums in bank vaults? Such accounts must be flagged, of course.”

Mr. Olisa Metuh the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, mentioned to a Punch correspondent on Saturday night that the President Buhari should not spare anyone, including his associates and counterparts of the ruling APC on the anti-corruption mission.

Metuh said:

“We are not against the war against corruption, but what we are saying is that the President must follow the rule of law.

“The law says every accused person is innocent until proven otherwise. Then, the President must also look at his party; he shouldn’t spare his friends.

“If any of our members is found to be corrupt, let them face the law of the land. But no one should be tagged as being corrupt when the court has not said so.”

He also said the President should fund the anti-graft agencies heavily, while stating that the organization should also conduct what he described as “water-tight investigations” before heading to the court