Nigeria: Group Protests Directive to Unfreeze Patience Jonathan's Bank Accounts

23 October 2017

Lagos — The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Yakubu Dogara to urgently withdraw the directives to some banks to unfreeze the accounts of former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan.

"The directive to banks to unfreeze Mrs Jonathan's accounts was patently unconstitutional and amounts to mingling of the executive and judicial powers in the National Assembly. Checks and balances should ideally help contribute to the rule of law and strengthening our democratic dispensation but if one branch of government grows too strong and overreaching, the country might be in trouble," the organisation said in a statement signed by SERAP deputy director Timothy Adewale.

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