Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided the residence of Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, in Epe area of the state, on Tuesday.

Tony Orilade, EFCC spokesman, confirmed this to TheCable.

He said the anti-graft agency had received petitions against the governor, and that it was investigating his administration.

”Yes, we received petitions regarding the governor, and we are investigating,” he said in response to a question from TheCable.

When asked if agents of the commission are at the residence of the governor, he said: ” Yes, that is part of the investigation.”

A federal high court in Lagos had ordered the freezing of three bank accounts allegedly linked to the former governor over a N9.9 billion fraud following an ex parte application by the EFCC.

The accounts are domiciled in First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Access Bank, and Zenith Bank with numbers 5617984012, 0060949275 and 1011691254 respectively

The EFCC had prayed the court to freeze the accounts pending the conclusion of an investigation and possible prosecution of Adewale Adesanya, permanent secretary in the office of the chief of staff to the governor of the state, for money laundering.

Kungmi Daniel, a member of the EFCC investigating team, said the anti-graft agency discovered “a huge inflow of N9,927,714,443.29” from the state accounts into an FCMB bank account opened on September 17, 2018 during the administration of Ambode.

He said the account was operated by Adesanya.

Ambode denied operating those accounts, saying he had no personal links to them.

“Those accounts were opened in the course of normal operations by the Lagos state government for its administrative purposes and not for the former governor’s personal transactions as was being wrongly insinuated and have been operated to ensure smooth operations of government activities by previous and present administrations,” he had said in a statement issued by Habib Aruna, his media aide.

“The former governor was not and will never be involved in any unauthorised use of government property and resources.”

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Apc the only motherly party that preys on its children that are not loyal to cabal or tinubu

Apc the only motherly party that preys on its children that are not loyal to cabal or tinubu.

Is not in that same Lagos that Tinubu is living .. .
9ja is one hell of a comical state.

Although, atimes when you ckme across all these figures, it's hard to comprehend why Lagos state is not a Paradise yet

Tinubu is a threat to everything that is right in governance.

The jagaban of greed
The jagaban of fraud
The jagaban of political godfatherism
The jagaban of bullion van governance.


My only annoyance with Ambode is that he didn't fight dirty with Tinubu, he cowardly bowed out.

The Ekweremadu treatment fits Nigerian politicians.

FortifiedCity:

The Ekweremadu treatment fits Nigerian politicians.

the thing is that I don't know if to be glad or sad about what Ipob did in Germany to that man. Maybe if it had come from another group, I would have been fully satisfied.

PREMIUM TIMES confirmed from EFCC spokesperson, Tony Orilade, that Mr Ambode is under a corruption probe, a few months after he left office.