A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Tuesday has ordered the freezing of three bank accounts allegedly linked to the former Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, over an alleged N9.9 billion fraud.
The accounts, domiciled in Zenith Bank, Access Bank, and First City Monument Bank, were ordered frozen after EFCC claimed a sum of N9.9 billion naira was paid from the state government’s accounts into the FCMB account operated by Adewale Adesanya, the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Chief of Staff to Mr. Ambode.
In an affidavit filed in support of the ex parte application, Kungmi Daniel, a member of the EFCC investigating team, said the schedule of the FCMB account showed how Mr Adesanya and the other signatories to the account made fraudulent fund transfers into the account from the accounts of the Lagos State Government.
He further said the commission received intelligence on the transfers, analysed it, and found it worthy of investigation. “The trend in the account is that the account always witnessed huge inflow from Lagos State Government in the above-scheduled accounts managed by the respondent (Adesanya)“, Daniel explained.
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The EFCC prayed the court to grant it an order to temporarily attach and take over the accounts to enable it to conclude its investigations. After listening, the presiding judge, Chuka Obiozor, ordered the temporary freeze of the accounts and adjourned till August 9.
