Igbo youths took to the
streets of Enugu on Wednesday in protest against the alleged “persecution” of
Patience Jonathan by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Some bank accounts, reportedly belonging to the
wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan had been frozen by the anti-graft
agency.
The protesters, under the aegis of Concerned
Igbo Youths, said Patience’s travail was an attempt to humiliate the former
President Goodluck Jonathan.
Brandishing placards
and chanting solidarity songs, the group, led by its coordinator, Victor
Ezenagu, marched to the Enugu office of the EFCC, where they submitted a
petition to the South-East zonal head of the commission, Mr. Johnson Babalola.
Some youths also protested in front of the
Enugu State Government House.
Responding after
receiving a copy of the petition, the EFCC South-East zonal head, Babalola,
said the matter was already before the court.
He urged the youths to redirect their protest
to the appropriate quarters.
Babalola equally appealed to the youths to
partner the EFCC to rid the country of corruption.
“The EFCC is not
embarking on a witch-hunt of the former first family or anybody else as you
said in your petition. The commission is only trying to rescue the nation; what
we are doing is in the interest of the nation,” Babalola told the youths.
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