Former First lady, Patience Jonathan, says she has less than $10 million
in her accounts that have been frozen by the EFCC. Mrs Jonathan said
this while reacting to media reports that $175 million was moved from
the four company accounts linked to her that are currently under
investigation for money laundering. In a statement released by her
spokesperson, Sam Dokubo, the former First lady said reports that she
had secretly moved $175 million from the accounts being investigated is
untrue. Her statement in part reads;
“For the avoidance of doubt, while indeed it is true that Dame Patience
is in court for the protection of her fundamental rights infringed upon
by a ‘No debit order’ placed on her funds by the EFCC, it is not for
$15m but for funds less than $10m as has been clarified several times.
The purported story in a newspaper on November 19, 2016, about a missing
$175m allegedly belonging to the former first lady is not just
fictitious but plain falsehood. The EFCC has not made any statement to
the existence of an investigation of any missing $175m linked to the
former first lady. If any such funds as claimed, which was deposited by
certain verifiable persons has gone missing without a trace from a known
bank, Skye Bank, as was reported, then, the bank, its officials and
those mentioned must be held to account for the funds and not the former
first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, who was in no way a part of the
transaction. The claim that the money was credited to a company linked
to Dame Patience Jonathan is also false; otherwise it should be
officially substantiated with credible evidence by Skye Bank and the
EFCC that are jointly mentioned in the report.”
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