Account Freezing: Osun govt dismisses EFCC’s ₦11b alleged looting, says action illegal

The Osun State Government has dismissed allegations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that it froze the state’s slope accounts implicit the alleged looting of N11 billion.

In a connection issued connected Thursday successful Osogbo, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, described the assertion arsenic an effort to warrant an unlawful action.

The authorities said the anti-graft agency’s mentation was unfounded and intended to screen what the authorities described arsenic an amerciable freezing of the state’s accounts.

According to Alimi, “the accounts were frozen to forestall the outgo of palliatives approved for civilian servants. The enactment was carried retired connected the orders of erstwhile Governor and Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola.

“The existent crushed the committee froze the authorities relationship connected the bid of Gboyega Oyetola was to halt the outgo of palliatives which the authorities authorities promised the workers immoderate months ago. This relationship freezing marks the climax of Oyetola’s historical anti-workers’ obsession.”

The commissioner stated that contempt the freezing of the accounts, the authorities had successfully paid the palliatives to workers, noting that the payments followed negotiations with labour unions aimed astatine cushioning the effects of the prevailing economical hardsh...