We can’t watch idly while Osun funds are being pillaged – EFCC

By Luminous Jannamike
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday night defended its decision to freeze the Osun State Government’s bank accounts, insisting the action was aimed at stopping the alleged diversion of about N11 billion in public funds under investigation and was not connected with the state’s forthcoming governorship election.
The anti-graft agency said it stepped in after investigators uncovered what it described as an unusual wave of fund transfers from government accounts into several corporate entities, arguing that allowing the transactions to continue would have amounted to looking the other way while public money was
allegedly being siphone...