the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission and management of Fidelity
Bank Plc of grounding the state’s finances,
making it difficult for the government to
pay workers’ salary.
The state’s Attorney General, Ben Igwenyi,
said both EFCC and Fidelity Bank were
working with some of the government’s
political enemies to paralyse the state.
The allegation is contained in a suit it
filed against the EFCC and Fidelity Bank,
before the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Igwenyi along with the state’s 13 local
governments had filed the suit, FHC/ABJ/
CS/11/2015, seeking among other prayers,
court’s declaration that the power of the
EFCC to freeze its account exercised
through Fidelity Bank was unlawful.
The plaintiffs are with the suit, challenging,
among others, the decision by the bank to
freeze its Joint Local Government account
No: 5030027464 (held in the bank)
allegedly on the directive by the EFCC.
The plaintiffs, in a supporting affidavit,
stated that the basis for freezing the
account “is politically motivated by political
differences.”
The affidavit read in part, “The act of the
defendants in freezing the afore-described
account has gravely and adversely
paralysed the administrative activities of the
state and its Local Government Councils.
“The administrative paralyses engendered by
the defendants is dire, especially because
civil servants can no longer be paid their
salaries and therefore, there are not funds
to run the day-to-day affairs of the 13
Local Governments in the state.
“The inability to pay workers has
precipitated into a build-up of temper and
outburst of emotions among civil servants
against the government of Ebonyi State
and the Local Government authorities.
“That the act of the defendants to place
a ‘no debit order’ on the Ebonyi Stat
Local Government Joint Account No:
5030027464 with Fidelity Bank Plc, has
caused the plaintiffs immeasurable loss of
goodwill, financial wreckage, business
breakdown and social opprobrium.
“That except by an immediate intervention
of the court, there will be anarchy in the
state an irreparable damage will be caused
to administrative obligations of the
government, which may result to loss of
lives.”
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