The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested four domestic staff as well as a driver and a houseboy whose names were used to open an account for Mrs Patience Jonathan, the wife of the former president Goodluck Jonathan. According to PUNCH news, anti graft agency had on Sunday disclosed that the companies' accounts were opened with Skye bank. The four companies are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Company and Investment Property Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.
EFCC has since frozen the four companies' account which have about $15m balance and another account with about $5m that has the name of Mrs Patience Jonathan as the account holder. Mr Sammie Somiari who testified in an affidavit on behalf of Mrs Jonathan, said the whole money in the above mentioned accounts belonged to the former first lady. However, the former first lady had sued Skye bank for freezing her bank accounts and for divulging vital information about her finances to the EFCC. She is calling on the court to order Skye Bank to pay her damages of N200million for what she termed violation of her right to own personal properties under section 44 of the 1999 constitution.
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