A former
First Lady, Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday, got a reprieve as the Senate
Committee investigating the petitions against the freezing of her accounts,
asked that they should be unfrozen.
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and
Public Petitions, after subjecting the management of four different banks,
where the first lady had accounts, to questions directed that those accounts
not encumbered by any legal process be re-opened.
The committee, headed by Sam Anyanwu, observed
that some of the accounts were frozen based on some administrative lapses.
According to the committee, one of the accounts
which is with the Stanbic IBTC Bank, had not breached any known law or due
process.
The committee also asked that the account with
Zenith Bank be re-opened because the court order which directed that it should
be frozen had been vacated.
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