The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has supposedly frozen the bank accounts of associates of former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
Punch Newspapers reports that the embargo is meant to block the transfer of looted funds from these accounts.
A member of the transition committee of the All Progressives Congress, revealed to Punch that it was imperative to make the move, owing to the scale of the alleged theft of public resources by the affected persons.
The report stated that the affected accounts belong to; Keketobou Foundation, owned by former Special Adviser to Jonathan on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku, as well as Mieka Divers Limited and Global West Vessels Limited, said to be owned by former Niger-Delta militant leader, Government Ekpompolo, aka Tompolo.
Also affected is another close ally of Jonathan, Kime Engozi, who is handling the N30bn Maritime University contract at Okerenkoko in the Gbaramatu area of Delta State.
The funds approved for the construction of the university have reportedly remained frozen in a Yenagoa branch of the United Bank for Africa.
The report added that accounts linked to the former Director General of NIMASA, Dr. Patrick Akpobolokemi, have also been frozen by the EFCC.
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