Abuja — The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has ordered Stanbic IBTC Bank and Zenith Bank Plc to unfreeze the accounts domiciled in their banks linked to former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan do for internal administrative reasons and not by court orders.
The committee also faulted the procedure for freezing the bank accounts through court orders served on the banks by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), instead of through court balliffs.
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