That respite will soon come for former first lady Patience Jonathan in her travails with the EFCC is a conditional statement going by the turn out of events as it relates to her frozen bank accounts.
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has joined the league of those against the unfreezing of Patience’ accounts frozen by the EFCC.
The organisation in a statement on Sunday, October 22, 2017, signed by its Deputy Director, Timothy Adewale, said, “It’s an affront to our constitutional democracy for the National Assembly to turn itself into a tool for checkmating the country’s justice system, especially the prosecution of grand corruption. Rather than helping Mrs Jonathan’s desire to achieve justice for what she may consider to be violations of her human rights, such directives are doing exactly the opposite and politicising the criminal justice process.”
The Senate and the House of Representatives have recently granted the prayers of the former first lady in a petition she sent to the National Assembly protesting the freezing of her accounts. The national assembly subsequently directed the unfreezing of the accounts of the former first lady domiciled in Stanbic IBTC, First Bank, Union Bank, Diamond Bank, Fidelity Bank, Ecobank and Bank Zenith Bank.
It is also worthy of mentioning that the order by the National Assembly on the accounts is yet to the complied with.
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