Court orders EFCC to unfreeze Patience Jonathan’s $5.9m

Wife of Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience has floored the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

The court on Thursday ordered the anti-graft agency to unfreeze her accounts containing about $5.9 million.

A Federal high court also sitting in Lagos had late last year granted the EFCC’s order to freeze multiple accounts belonging to the former first lady, on the suspicion that the funds in them were proceeds of crime.

This was after EFCC prosecutor Rotimi Oyedepo Iseoluwa had filed an affidavit in support of the ex-parte originating summons sworn to by an investigating officer of the agency, Abdullahi Tukur, before the court.

Mrs. Jonathan had approached the court for enforcement of what she said was an abuse of her rights, even as she claimed that the monies were gifts to her.

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