Why EFCC Froze My Account – Ozekhome
Mr. Mike Ozekhome, Human rights lawyer[/caption]
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Mike Ozekhome SAN, has explained that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) froze his account because of his handling a brief for Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state over the illegal freezing of the governor’s account with Zenith Bank Plc by the anti-graft body sometime in 2016.
Ozekhome in an exclusive telephone interview with The Whistler admitted that the governor paid him part of his legal briefs, N75 million, and wondered why the EFCC would freeze his account.
“I am not aware, somebody called me just now to say that he read it online. I don’t know why they would do that. I know that Fayose, I won the case for him in court, posted N75 million to my account as part payment of my legal fees. I don’t know what they are trying to forfeit.
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“I have not been put on notice on it. You are the second person calling me on it. They have not told me anything, whether it is true or not, I have sent my wife to go to the bank to go and check on the account,” Ozekhome told our correspondent on phone.
A Federal High Court judge sitting in Lagos ordered temporary forfeiture of N75 million in Ozekhome’s account domiciled with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB).
Justice Abdulaziz Anka gave the order while delivering a ruling in a motion filed by the EFCC seeking that Ozekhome’s account be temporarily frozen on the ground that the sum of N75 million deposited in his account on December 15, 2016, was suspected to be a proceed of crime.
