Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has narrated how the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, stopped her from travelling to the United Kingdom, UK, despite raiding her home five times, without any search warrant.
Patience made this known in a petition written by her Lawyers, Granville Abibo (SAN) & Co. which was addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.
The petition reads in part: “In February 2017, the EFCC through its Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, made a spurious report against our client to the United Kingdom authorities, and other international bodies – all in a grand design to forestall the renewal of her visa and other travel documents.
“The allegations against our client by the EFCC, were duly investigated by the UK authorities and other international bodies, who found the reports baseless, and thereupon issued the visa and other travel documents to our client.”
She also revealed that the EFCC has been intimidating and harassing her with three agencies searching her properties at least five times.
She added: “On November 3, 2016, the EFCC physically raided and attacked the premises of our client and her relations, situated at 2 Igbeti Street, Maitama, Abuja, in the absence of the occupants of the house, carting away valuable items.
“On November 30, 2016, the same premises were raided by the officials of the NDLEA, with a lorry load of over 50 operatives, under the guise of searching for drugs kept in the house. This raid was carried out in the absence of the occupants of the said house. Our client’s house was broken into and vandalised.
“On January 4, 2017, the EFCC again broke into the said house, claiming to be looking for foreign currencies stashed therein. This was done in the absence of the occupants of the house, and without any search warrant. The operatives raided the house and took away whatever they fancied.”
Post-Nigeria could recall, that several bank accounts linked to Patience Jonathan, with a total sum of about N15 billion had been frozen, while properties worth about N3 billion had been seized by the EFCC.
