The Federal High
Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the freezing of three accounts allegedly
belonging to the Lagos State Government over alleged N9.9billion fraud.
Justice
Chuka Obiozor made the order following an ex-parte application by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He
ordered the accounts’ “suspension” pending conclusion of investigation and
possible prosecution of the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Chief of
Staff to the Governor, Adewale Adesanya.
The
accounts are domiciled in First City Monument Bank (numbered 5617984012),
Access Bank (0060949275) and Zenith Bank (1011691254).
In a
supporting affidavit, an EFCC investigator Kungmi Daniel said the commission
discovered huge inflow of N9,927,714,443.29 from the state accounts into the
FCMB account.
It said
the account, operated by Adesanya, was opened last September 17 during the
Akinwunmi Ambode administration.
According
to the deponent, investigators found that Adesanya and other signatories made
fraudulent transfers from the state’s accounts and dissipated the funds.
“The
trend is that the account always witnessed huge inflow from Lagos State
Government in the above scheduled accounts managed by the respondent (Adesanya)
