Senate Committee investigating the petitions against the freezing of the accounts of former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, has directed that the accounts should be unfrozen.
The directive was given on Wednesday in Abuja by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions headed by Senator Sam Anyanwu
The directive stated that Patience Jonathan’s accounts not encumbered by any legal process be re-opened.
The committee observed that some of it were frozen based on some administrative lapses.
One of the accounts at the Stanbic IBTC Bank, the committee said, had not breached any known law or due process.
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The committee also directed that the account with Zenith Bank must be re-opened because the court order which directed that it should be frozen had been vacated.
The committee said it was not happy that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) used the banks to close the accounts without complying with due process of law.
After listening to the committee, bank executives present informed the lawmakers that the court order vacating the earlier ones relied upon by the EFCC to close the accounts were not made available to them.
They promised to re-open those accounts having been informed of the vacation order.