The Senate orders managing directors of some banks to appear before a Senate committee set up to hear the complaint of the former first lady over the freezing of her accounts.
The minister for information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the sum of $6.2 billion public fund was stolen from the national coffers.
The acting chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has been summoned by the Senate over the freezing of seven bank accounts of former first lady, Patience Jonathan.
The summons was in respect to a petition Patience Jonathan wrote to the lawmakers through her lawyer, Charles Ogboli, alleging that the EFCC and the NDLEA had at differed times subjected her to dehumanizing treatment.
In the petition, counsel to former first lady said the seven accounts of some companies of his client that were frozen include, Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development Investment Company and Transocean Property and Investment Limited. Ogboli accused the EFCC of freezing the former first lady’s accounts and that of her relatives without any court order.
He said the action of the anti-graft agency led to the death of Mrs Jonathan’s brother, Lazarus Eware. In respect to the petition, lawmakers summoned Magu and the managing directors of some banks to appear before the senate committee set up to hear the complaint of the former first lady over the freezing of her accounts.
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