EFCC can freeze state accounts, must obtain court order within 72 hours — Falana
And in a historic judgment, the Supreme Court examined all the relevant laws and came to the conclusion that these agencies have the power to probe the accounts of any organisation, either at the federal, state or local government level.
Falana, who spoke on Friday during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the commission could place a Post No Debit (PND) restriction on a state government account, provided it obtained a court order within the period prescribed by law.“Under the law, the EFCC has the power to freeze the account of the Federal Government or of any state or local government in Nigeria,” he said.
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