BREAKING: EFCC freezes N9.2bn bank account linked to ex-Gov Ambode
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has frozen a N9.2bn account linked to the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode.
The PUNCH had exclusively reported in June that loyalists of All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu, were dragging Ambode to the EFCC for investigation.
The EFCC in a statement by its Spokesman, Tony Orilade, titled, ‘EFCC Secures Freezing Order on Accounts Linked to Ex-Gov. Ambode over Alleged N9.9bn Fraud’, said Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday ordered the freezing of the sum of N9.9bn belonging to the Lagos State Government