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Court orders freeze on more bank accounts linked to Patience Jonathan

While wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, is still battling the EFCC to unfreeze her accounts with about $15million deposit, a Lagos Federal high court on Tuesday, ordered another set of accounts linked to her to be frozen.

The EFCC is claiming that the multiple accounts, said to be belong to the former First Lady, were proceeds of crime.

One of the frozen accounts, opened with Patience’s name is said to contain the sum of $5,842,316.66.

The freeze order also affected the accounts of five companies which  have about N7, 418,829,290.94.

The order came following a further affidavit in support of an Ex-parte originating summons sworn to by Abdullahi Tukur, an EFCC investigating officer and filed before the court by the commission’s prosecutor Rotimi Oyedepo Iseoluwa.

Mr Tukur stated that there was urgent need for the court to direct the managers of the bank accounts contained in the schedule filed with the summons to, in the interim, forfeit the money contained therein to prevent further tampering with the account being sought to be attached.

The companies affected are Finchley Top Homes Limited; Aribawa Aruera; Magel resort Limited; AM -PM Global network Limited, Pansy Oil and Gas Limited and Esther Oba.

Details of the companies’ accounts show that Finchley Top Homes Limited opened an account domiciled with another bank with a current balance of N226,376,700.23 and a fixed deposit with balance of N1,099,511,484.88.

The company also opened an account domiciled with a bank with current balance of N14, 173,848.85. It also operates account with current balance of N1, 800,494,000.00 and another account with current balance of N40, 594, 12.88.

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Aribawa Aruera Reachout Foundation opened account with closing balance of N479,893,431.01. AM-PM Global Network Limited opened account with balance of N7,213,303.50; Pagmat oil and Gas Limited has account with current balance of N1,809,666,494.68 and another account with balance of N55,930,024.50.

Esther Oba has account with current balance of $429,381.87.

All the monies EFFC claimed were suspected to be proceeds of crime and that it will serve the course of justice to grant its application for the accounts to be frozen.

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun who granted the other, however ordered the anti -graft agency to file undertaking as to damages if it turned out that the order was done in error.

This is coming when patience in a suit against the EFCC in court is praying for the anti-graft agency to let go of her account containing $15million earlier frozen by the commission.

 

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    January 24, 2017 at 11:25 pm

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  2. JOHNSON PETER

    January 25, 2017 at 7:51 am

    But why are some people so heartless and so inconsiderate that they dont even consider the poor . Money that they wont take to heaven. Sincerely we have to enact a death penalty law for any corrupt person. Patience deserves to die.

    • Balarabe musa

      January 25, 2017 at 8:11 am

      Never will our these so called law makers enact such law because they themselves are extremely corrupt. For Nigeria to be a corrupt free country, that will in another world to come.

  3. Animashaun Ayodeji

    January 25, 2017 at 9:57 am

    All these monies in Patience Jonathan’s account can actually get Nigeria out of recession if properly spent and only her has decided to bank the money. This is more reason Nigeria cannot grow, the greed is too much

    • yanju omotodun

      January 25, 2017 at 3:43 pm

      You are right . It is the attributes of all politician saves none. All I want them doing with her frozen money, is to unfrozen, withdraw it and use them to empower the poor women of her local government and see what it will yield in a long term.

  4. Margret Dickson

    January 25, 2017 at 10:01 am

    I’m still finding it difficult to believe Patience is connected to all these bank accounts. This woman is a criminal who needs to be dealt with. I hope the money in the banks accounts will be returned to federal government. I seriously don’t know what she wants to do with the money

    • Johnson Amadi

      January 25, 2017 at 10:09 am

      Patience is just 59 years of age, she still has about four more decades to live. She must have planned to spend all the money for the rest of her life time. EFCC should also please probe Ebele. For his wife to be this heartless in embezzling money, the husband can never be clean

      • Amarachi Okoye

        January 25, 2017 at 1:15 pm

        husband and wife are disame so what ever the wife does husband is the head of the crime

    • Joy Madu

      January 25, 2017 at 12:02 pm

      This woman want to finish this country with her greed but thank God she has being caught by the EFCC. I believe the money will be taking back by the EFCC for special interrogation

  5. chichi emerue

    January 25, 2017 at 11:54 am

    Jonathan and his wife are both thieves they want to make sure they finish the hole money they stole,i see no reason why she should have such amount of money when they are problem in the country.EFCC should not let the both couple go free they need to be inverstigated and put into bars

    • Roland Uchendu Pele

      January 25, 2017 at 9:20 pm

      Mind your words. You are pointing accusing fingers to a couple that is yet proven guilty.

  6. Nonso Ezeugo

    January 25, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    Am not surprise if patience has such account beside she is the wife of the formal president and should be able to invest during his husband time

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