A legal practitioner and public affairs analyst, Frank Tietie, has defended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over its decision to freeze an Osun State Government account, saying the anti-graft agency does not need prior approval before restricting an account suspected of being linked to unlawful transactions. President Bola Tinubu had subsequently directed the commission to take steps to vacate the court order freezing the state government’s account. Tietie said his position was supported by provisions of the EFCC Establishment Act and the Money Laundering Act, as well as previous decisions of the Court of Appeal. Tietie said, “The EFCC didn’t need to apologise to anybody, didn’t also need to consult anybody before exercising its powers to freeze a particular transaction, which I urge it to do, or to freeze a particular bank account, so long as it does not exceed three days. “That will be unpatriotic, illegal and gross negligence on the part of those leading the EFCC,” Tietie said.