Patience Rolling Dollars And Her Shameless Defence, By Barr. Ibrahim Lawal

It is no longer news that Mrs Patience Faka Jonathan had own up to the ownership of over $35 millions starched in Skye Bank account which was opened in another person's name.

The accusations against Mrs. Jonathan are that she was operating many domiciliary accounts using fictitious names and photographs while she was the sole signatory to all. Due to the huge amount in the accounts, she is also accused of money laundering and living higher than her traceable sources of funds. 

The accounts were all traceable to her due to recent reforms(BVN)going on in the banking sector. It was first denied but after serious evidence were made available to her lawyers, she eventually saw the end of the road and admitted she owns those accounts.

In defending the ownership of the account, Mrs Jonathan said she actually requested that all those accounts which were opened at Skye Bank be opened in her name but that the bank opened it 'wrongly'.....using names different from her name. (Laughable ?) The bank in Nigeria opened a Sitting First Lady Account and missed her name?

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She said she has told them since 2014 to change the names and pictures. And when they brought her FOUR DEBIT CARDS, she also saw that her name was not on the cards and she complained to Skye Bank and they promised to do so.

However, she was operating both accounts. Funds were coming in and out. In fact she used those cards during her recent medica trips.

Before an account is opened, opening form will be filled, photos will be attached, at least 2 references will be done and KYC(Know Your Customer) will be done. In KYC, the bank will verify all the information supplied by the customer to be, check the document and utility bills and then verify the home and company address.....After which the account will be opened.

Mrs Jonathan has taken EFCC and Skye Bank to court and she's demanding for additional N200m as damages to join to the already looted national wealth in her various fraudulent accounts.

Of course, Commercial Banks in Nigeria are part of the reasons why we are where we are today.....crookedness is their business and dirty money and profit are their hubby!

Let us see how the EFCC will handle this. I am also waiting for Edwin Clerk's of this world and the Niger Delta avengers to sing lullabies about persecution. 

I am waiting for the delapitated PDP to wax lyrics about Buhari's penchant for attacking oppositions. I am also waiting to read from the PDP e- rats to defend the horrendous pillaging of our scarce resources. 

For the apostles of moving forward without recourse to the past, I say goodluck to all of you. For me and my household

SHOCKER: How Ex-President's Wife Forged Signatures of 4 Housemaids, Driver To Open Dollar Accounts To Defraud Nigeria

In act that could be termed as high profile fraudulent, the former first lady, Dame Patient Jonathan went so demeaning herself to the extent of forging signatures of housemaid, driver; open domiciliary accounts in their name just to defraud Nigeria.

Fresh revelation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has revealed that four domestic servants, including a driver and a houseboy, whose names were used to open bank accounts for Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The four of them have since been arrested.

According to Punch Newspaper, multiple sources within the anti-graft agency said on Sunday that the companies’ accounts were opened at Skye Bank.

The companies are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.

The four companies’ accounts, which have since been frozen by the EFCC, have a balance of about $15m while another account, which bears Patience Jonathan’s name, has $5m.

Punch Newspaper further accounted that one Mr. Sammie Somiari, who deposed to an affidavit on behalf of the ex-President’s wife, said the former First Lady was the owner of the money in the accounts.

She had revealed that she gave millions of dollars to the then Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa, to open accounts for her.

Somiari, however, claimed that Dudafa opened five accounts for Patience and that only one of the accounts was in her name, while the other four were opened in the names of companies belonging to Dudafa.

A detective at the EFCC, however, revealed that Dudafa used his domestic servants’ names to open the four other accounts and then deposited the money into the accounts.

The operative added, “We were investigating Dudafa when we stumbled on those four companies’ domiciliary accounts opened at Skye Bank with a balance of about $15m. On further investigation, we were able to identify the directors of the companies.

“When we detained the directors, we found out that they were Dudafa’s domestic servants. One of them was a houseboy while another one was a driver. Their photographs were used in opening the accounts and their signatures were forged.

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“We found out that these domestic servants were completely innocent because they had no access to the accounts. We have since released them. The sole signatory to the accounts was Patience Jonathan and she was issued with a special card, which is accepted worldwide. She has a separate account, which was opened in her name and has a balance of $5m.”

The detective said a lawyer, Amajuoyi Briggs, who allegedly helped Dudafa to perpetrate the fraud, would also be arraigned.

It was learnt that two Skye Bank executives, Demola Bolodeoku and Dipo Oshodi, who helped Dudafa to open the accounts on March 22, 2010, were also being investigated.

The detective added, “This is a clear case of fraud and there is no way the bank officials will say they did not know what was going on. They are under investigation and those found culpable will be arraigned.”

The EFCC operative said he could not immediately confirm if the transaction was reported to the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit.

He explained that the commission had discovered a trend which politicians used in laundering and concealing funds, saying it was becoming more rampant due to the operation of the Bank Verification Number which links all accounts owned by an individual.

He added, “What we have noticed is that in order to conceal funds, what politicians and top civil servants do is to open bank accounts in the name of family or friends and then make themselves the sole signatory to the account.

“Don’t forget that we traced about 17 bank accounts to the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.).

“Often times, they do this in connivance with bank officials and that is why the EFCC Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has said henceforth, whenever we are investigating a bank official, we will probe the entire bank as well because these officials usually act under the instruction of their superiors.”

Jonathan’s wife has, however, sued Skye Bank for freezing her bank accounts and giving the EFCC vital information about her finances.

She also wants the court to order Skye Bank to pay her damages in the sum of N200m for what she termed a violation of her right to own personal properties under Section 44 of the 1999 Constitution.

Nigeria Constitution Empowers EFCC To Probe Any Sudden Millionaire, By Obono-Obla

Undoubtedly, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is primarily responsible for investigation of economic and financial crimes in the country. 

The functions of the EFCC by the provisions of Part 11, Section 6 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (establishment etc), 2004 are as follows thus: The Commission shall be responsible for - 

(a) the enforcement and the due administration of the provisions of this Act; 

(b) the investigation of all financial crimes including advance fee fraud, money laundering, counterfeiting, illegal charge transfers, futures market fraud, fraudulent encashment of negotiable instruments, computer credit card fraud, contract scam, etc.; 

(c) the co-ordination and enforcement of all economic and financial crimes laws and enforcement functions conferred on any other person or authority; 

(d) the adoption of measures to identify, trace, freeze, confiscate or seize proceeds derived from terrorist activities, economic and financial crimes related offences or the properties the value of which corresponds to such proceeds; 

(e) the adoption of measures to eradicate the commission of economic and financial crimes; 

(f) the adoption of measures which includes coordinated preventive and regulatory actions, introduction and maintenance of investigative and control techniques on the prevention of economic and financial related crimes; 

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(g) the facilitation of rapid exchange of scientific and technical information and the conduct of joint operations geared towards the eradication of economic and financial crimes; 

(h) the examination and investigation of all reported cases of economic and financial crimes with a view to identifying individuals, corporate bodies or groups involved; 

(i) the determination of the extent of financial loss and such other losses by government, private individuals or organizations; 

(j) collaborating with government bodies both within and outside Nigeria carrying on functions wholly or in part analogous with those of the Commission concerning - 

(i) the identification, determination, of the whereabouts and activities of persons suspected of being involved in economic and financial crimes, 

(ii) the movement of proceeds or properties derived from the commission of economic and financial and other related crimes; 

(iii) the exchange of personnel or other experts, 

(iv) the establishment and maintenance of a system for monitoring international economic and financial crimes in order to identify suspicious transactions and persons involved, 

(v) maintaining data, statistics, records and reports on person, organizations, proceeds, properties, documents or other items or assets involved in economic and financial crimes; 

(vi) undertaking research and similar works with a view to determining the manifestation, extent, magnitude, and effects of economic and financial crimes and advising government on appropriate intervention measures for combating same 

(k) dealing with matters connected with the extradition, deportation and mutual legal or other assistance between Nigeria and any other country involving Economic and Financial Crimes; 

(l) The collection of all reports relating suspicious financial transactions, analyse and disseminate to all relevant Government agencies; 

(m) taking charge of, supervising, controlling, coordinating all the responsibilities, functions and activities relating to the current investigation and prosecution of all offenses connected with or relating to economic and financial crimes; 

(n) the coordination of all existing economic and financial crimes, investigating units in Nigeria; 

(o) maintaining a liaison with office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Nigerian Customs Service, the Immigration and Prison Service Board, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, all government security and law enforcement agencies and such other financial supervisory institutions in the eradication of economic and financial crimes; 

(p) carrying out and sustaining rigorous public and enlightenment campaign against economic and financial crimes within and outside Nigeria and; 

(q) carrying out such other activities as are necessary or expedient for the full discharge of all or any of the functions conferred on it under this Act. 

Recently, the EFCC in exercise of its statutory powers has frozen the accounts of the former First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Patience Jonathan in Skye Bank where a whopping $15, 591, 700 Million was found. 

However, Mrs Jonathan has filed an action in the Federal High Court challenging the power of the EFCC to freeze her account. She boldly admitted in an affidavit filed in the court that the money belongs to her. 

The pertinent question is: How did Mrs Jonathan came by ownership of such a large sum of money in view of the fact that she was had never being a business woman; she had never held a government appointment but was a civil servant in Bayelsa State. 

Surely the sudden and huge wealth of Mrs Jonathan needs to be investigated!

I submit that the EFCC has special power under Section 7 (1) (b) of the EFCC Act (supra) to investigate and seize a property belonging to somebody whose lifestyle and extent of the property does not justify his or her income. 

For the avoidance of any doubt and purpose of clarity, it is pertinent to reproduce Section 7 (1) (b) of the EFCC Act (supra) thus:

‘’cause investigations to be conducted into the properties of any person if it appears to the commission that the person’s lifestyle and extent of the properties are not justified by his source of income’’.

So, those who live lavish life styles or acquire properties that are beyond their income should better watch out. 

Okoi Obono-Obla 

Presidency Angry, Asks EFCC To Probe Patience Jonathan As FRESH $5m Found In Her Account, Totaling $36.1m

Angered at the admission and ownership claim of the frozen $31.4 million United State dollar by the former First Lady, Patience Jonathan and another fresh $5 million just discovered, the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has the right to probe her, Punch Newspaper reports on Sunday.

The EFCC has just traced an additional $5m to the Skye Bank account of Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Punch Newspaper also confirmed this morning

This brings to $36.1m the total amount so far traced to the former first lady.

As part of investigations into a money laundering case against a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Jonathan, Waripamowei Dudafa, the EFCC had traced four company accounts to him with $31.4, but with an unspent balance of $15m.

The EFCC subsequently charged Dudafa and the four companies with money laundering.

The four companies, whose accounts have since been frozen, are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.

A source at the EFCC said, “While we were investigating Dudafa, we traced the four companies to him. The companies have domiciliary accounts at Skye Bank with a balance of about $15m. So, we obtained a court order and froze the accounts.

“We then traced the directors of the companies who then denied ownership of the accounts. It was later that we were informed that the accounts belonged to Patience Jonathan and that she is the sole signatory to the accounts. She was given a special card which she used in making withdrawals across the world.

“We, therefore, wondered why the accounts were not opened in her name if she had nothing to hide. In fact, we later found out that her personal account, which bears her name, has a balance of $5m. One wonders where a person, who has never held a government position, got the money from. She was not our initial target but she certainly has questions to answer.”

Jonathan’s wife has, however, sued Skye Bank for freezing her bank accounts and giving the EFCC vital information about her finances.

Patience filed a N200m fundamental rights enforcement suit against Skye Bank Plc.

One Sammie Somiari, who deposed to an affidavit on behalf of Patience, claimed that the EFCC placed a No Debit Order on the four accounts in July, in the course of probing Dudafa.

The EFCC has now filed an amended 17 counts against Dudafa and seven others, including the four companies, wherein the suspects were accused of conspiring to conceal $15,591,700, which the EFCC claimed they ought to have known formed part of proceeds of an unlawful act.

Somiari said in the affidavit filed on behalf of Patience, who is said to be away for an urgent medical treatment abroad, that it was Dudafa who helped Patience open the four bank accounts which the EFCC froze.

According to him, Dudafa had on March 22, 2010 brought two Skye Bank officers, Demola Bolodeoku and Dipo Oshodi, to meet Patience at home to open five accounts.

The deponent claimed that Patience was the sole signatory to the accounts.

He, however, claimed that after the five accounts were opened, Patience later discovered that Dudafa opened only one of the accounts in her name, while the other four were opened in the names of companies belonging to Dudafa.

Somiari added, “The applicant (Patience) complained about this to Dudafa, who at his prompting and instance promised to effect the change of the said accounts to the applicant’s name; and to effect this change, Dudafa brought the said bank manager, Mr. Dipo Oshodi, who was purported to have effected the changes. This was about April 2014.

“The applicant is not a director, shareholder or participant in the companies named in the aforementioned four accounts.

“The bank official, Mr. Dipo Oshodi, as it would appear, did not effect or reflect the instruction of the applicant to change the said accounts to her name(s) despite repeated requests of the applicant.

“Besides, the ATM credit cards bearing the said companies’ names were brought to the applicant by Mr. Dipo Oshodi of the second respondent bank, who promised to replace them once the cards bearing the changed names were available, but he never did.

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“However, since 2010 up until 2014 and thereafter, the applicant had been using the cards on the said accounts and operating the said accounts without let or hindrance.

“Even in May, June and July 2016, the applicant travelled overseas for medical treatment and was using the said credit cards abroad up until July 7, 2016 or thereabout when the cards stopped functioning.”

In her fundamental rights suit, Patience is urging the court to compel the EFCC to immediately remove the No Debit Order placed on her accounts.

She also wants the court to order Skye Bank to pay her damages in the sum of N200m for what she termed a violation of her right to own personal property under Section 44 of the Constitution.

However, the EFCC is in moves to arraign Dudafa and his alleged accomplices for money laundering before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

Further proceedings in the case has been adjourned until September 15.

However, the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said with the fresh admission by Patience that she owns the accounts, the EFCC has the right to probe her.

Sagay told one of our correspondents on the telephone that the Act establishing the EFCC gave the anti-graft agency the power to investigate anybody who is seen to have more wealth than he ought to have.

The senior advocate wondered how Patience, who was a civil servant and never held any government position, could have billions in her bank accounts.

He said, “The EFCC and ICPC Act have provisions under which they can ask the court to freeze the account of a person if a person’s capacity to earn is below the amount of money that the person appears to have.

“If you are living a lavish lifestyle and it appears you don’t have the means to have acquired the property and the wealth you have, the EFCC is free to probe you.

“If she is claiming the money belongs to her, she has put herself in a position where she must explain how she earned it.”

Attempts to get the comments of the wife of the former president were not successful.

Repeated calls and a text message sent to the Media Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, were also not responded to as of 8:45pm on Saturday.

The Secret Deals Behind 'STOLEN' $31.4m Jonathan's Wife Can't Let Go; Sues EFCC Over, Demands N200m Compensation

Wife to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to court for the enforcement of her fundamental rights following the freezing of four bank accounts by the commission, a report by ChannelsTV says.

Mrs Jonathan is asking the court for a compensation of N200m for the freezing of the account which she claims has caused her inconvenience and embarrassment.

The four accounts, lodged with Skye Bank Plc, are in the name of four companies which is said to have a balance of $31.4m

The four companies are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development & Investment Co. Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Development Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.

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In an affidavit filed before the court and deposed to by one Sammie Somiari, a legal practitioner on behalf of Patience Jonathan, the deponents claims that the EFCC placed a No Debit Order on the four accounts in July in the course of probing one Waripamo Dudafa, a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

After its investigations, the EFCC went ahead to file an amended 17-count against Dudafa and seven others, including the four companies, with the defendants being accused of conspiring to conceal the monies which the EFCC claimed they ought to have known formed parts of the proceeds of an unlawful act.

In the affidavit however, Sammie Somiari claims that it was Dudafa who helped Mrs Patience Jonathan to open the four bank accounts which the EFCC froze.

According to him, Dudafa had on March 22, 2010 brought two Skye Bank officers, Demola Bolodeoku and Dipo Oshodi, to meet the former first lady at home to open five accounts.

He, however, claimed that after the five accounts were opened, Mrs Patience Jonathan later discovered that Dudafa opened only one of the accounts in her name while the other four were opened in the names of companies belonging to Dudafa.

Somiari added “that Mrs Jonathan complained about this to Honourable Dudafa, who at her prompting and instance promised to effect the change of the said accounts to the applicant’s name; and to effect this change, Honourable Dudafa brought the said bank manager, Mr. Dipo Oshodi, who claimed to have effected the changes. This was about April 2014.

“The bank official, Mr. Dipo Oshodi, as it would appear did not effect or reflect the instruction of the applicant to change the said accounts to her name(s) despite repeated requests.

The deponent also claims that Mrs Patience Jonathan who is said to be away for an urgent medical treatment abroad, is the sole signatory to the accounts as the money belongs to her.

The affidavit also said that the ATM credit cards bearing the said companies’ names were brought to Mrs Jonathan by the bank manager who promised to replace them once the cards bearing the changed names were available, but he never did.

“However, since 2010 up until 2014 and thereafter, Mrs Jonathan had been using the cards on the said accounts and operating the said accounts without let or hindrance. Even in May, June and July 2016, the former First Lady traveled overseas for medical treatment and was using the said credit cards abroad up until July 7, 2016 or thereabouts when the cards stopped functioning.”

In her fundamental rights action before the court, the wife of the former President is asking the court to compel the EFCC to immediately vacate the “No Debit Order” placed on her accounts.

She also says the action of the EFCC without a court order or prior notice to her is illegal, overbearing and constitutes a breach of her fundamental rights as enshrined in Section 33, 34, 35 & 36 of the 1999 Constitution.

She wants the court to order Skye Bank to pay her damages in the sum of N200m for what she termed a violation of her right to own personal property under Section 44 of the Constitution.

The EFCC on its part is set to arraign the former Presdent’s aide, Dudafa and his alleged accomplices for money laundering before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

SHAMELESS Jonathan's Wife Claims Ownership of $31.4m Frozen From Husband's 'Fraudster' Aides

The Former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan is shamelessly claiming ownership of the $31.4 million involved in an alleged fraud case before a Federal High Court in Lagos, Guardian Newspaper reported this morning

According to Guardian, Counsel to the first defendant in charge, with case number FHC/337C/16, Mr. Gboyega Oduwole, informed the court that Mrs. Jonathan filed a fundamental application against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claiming ownership of the money.

The EFCC had taken former presidential aide, Amajuoyi Azubike Briggs, former Skye Bank official, Damola Bolodeoku, Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited to court in an alleged $31.4 million fraud involving the companies without addresses.

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Others also charged include Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited, Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited and Globus Integrated Services Limited.

According to an application filed on September 6, this year, with file number FHC/L/C5/1233/16, Mrs. Jonathan is asking the court to make an order for the enforcement of her fundamental rights, in terms of reliefs she sought, and naming as defendants, the EFCC and Skye Bank Plc.

The former first lady asked the court to make a declaration that the fund standing to the credit of four of the companies and an account in her own name in Skye Bank belonged to her.

She also asked the court to declare that the action of the respondents in placing a No Debit/Freezing Order on the said accounts without any order of a competent court of law or prior notice to her, to be in breach of her fundamental rights as contained in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

At Last, Patience Jonathan, Amaechi Reunites After years of Political Rivalry, See Photo

Penultimate the 2015 general election, former governor of Rivers State, now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi and the wife to former President, Goodluck Jonathan were known political foes.

Both met at the weekend at the funeral mass of Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Madueke, in Abia state last Saturday. They greeted each other and exchanged pleasantries.

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