A legal practitioner and public affairs analyst, Frank Tietie, has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, does not need to consult anyone before freezing an account suspicious of illegal activities.
Tietie made this claim on Friday during a live appearance in an interview on Arise Television.
His assertions followed the freezing of Osun state government account by the EFCC a few days to the state’s governorship election.
President Bola Tinubu had swiftly ordered the anti-graft agency to immediately vacate the court order that froze the Osun government account.
Airing his opinion, Tietie said, “It is a case of hindrance of law enforcement and nearly borders on obstruction to justice.
“I establish it by referring to the various decisions of the Court of Appeal with regards to the cases against EFCC in terms of Benue State in the time of former Governor Samuel Ortom, and then the express provisions of
