Governor Peter Mbah directed that all bank accounts belonging to the Enugu government be frozen.
Subsidies from 2005 to 2021 was equivalent to the entire budget for health, education, agriculture and defence in the last five years.
The corporation, which has the Australian government as its biggest client, has asked nine of its directors to take immediate leave.
The anti-graft agency listed items recovered from the suspects to include “two exotic cars, 26 mobile phones and four personal computers.”
The proposed two-year imprisonment is with no option of fine on anyone whose petitions to the commission are found to be false or misleading.
The suspects were arrested in sting operations at Disney Park Lounge, Epitome and Tomoso Hotels, all in the Barnawa axis of Kaduna.
The President said any issues between the two top agencies of government would be resolved amicably.
They were soon admitted to N500 million bail each on February 20 in their N3 billion fraud trial.
Operatives of the State Security Service have barred several Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials from the anti-graft’s Ikoyi office in Lagos.
“I am surprised that the outgoing governor is not around to hand over to me as a democratically elected governor, which has been the tradition.”
