FEDERAL GOVT FREEZES ACCOUNT OF JONATHAN'S ASSOCIATES.

The federal government freezes Jonathan’s associates’ accounts
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has
secretly frozen the bank accounts of former President Jonathan’s
associates. It learnt that the move by the anti-graft agency was
aimed at scuttling the transfer of the alleged looted funds from the
accounts for other reasons
A member of a transition committee of the All Progressives
Congress on Friday, said the need had become necessary in view
of the magnitude of the alleged theft of public resources by the
affected persons.
The APC chieftain spoke on the heels of the condemnation of
President Buhari’s ongoing probe of the last administration of the
Peoples Democratic Party and recovery of funds looted by public
officials.
The source, who is now in the Presidency, said although he could
not confirm if Jonathan’s recent meeting with Buhari discussed
the issue, the action to ‘flag’ the said accounts of his associates
might have been for security reasons.
The source also said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party was
ignorant of the workings 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.”
However, the PDP has asked President Buhari to follow the rule of
law in his government’s determination to fight corruption.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, in an
interview with a Pucnh correspondent on Saturday night, asked
the President not to spare anyone, including his friends and
members of the ruling APC in the crusade.
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 asked the President to fund the anti-corruption agencies
adequately, while saying that the agencies should also conduct
what he described as “water-tight investigations” before rushing
to the court.

Source: Punch