EFCC, a Witch Hunting Agency - Bishop Sam Oyede Talks on Freezing of Fayose's Account

Speaking with newsmen at Oleh in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, the president of God’s Fountain of Life Bible Mission International Incorporated, Bishop Sam Oyede, has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), stepped beyond its bounds in freezing the personal bank account of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose.

 

The Bishop who warned the EFCC against further heating up the polity by posing as a witch hunting agency, noted that the country was currently grappling with the problem of Niger Delta Avengers, Fulani herdsmen’s menace and Indigenous people of Biafra agitations.

 

He said that it was illegal and unconstitutional for the bank account of 'a sitting governor to be frozen while in office.' 

“Fayose as a lawfully elected governor enjoys immunity. Yes, certainly, the governor enjoys immunity under section 308 of the 1999 constitution. That is the same immunity that the president and vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria enjoy under that section of the constitution,” he said. 

 

While urging President Muhammadu Buhari to call the commission to order, the cleric maintained that “Nigeria is in a democracy, where the rule of law should be upheld and not in a military dictatorship that reels out inhumane decrees.

 

“By this act, it is clear that the EFCC is over-heating the polity. Who is ordering the freezing of Fayose’s account, the anti-graft commission should tell us,” he said.