Former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is claiming ownership of the
$31.4 million involved in an alleged fraud case before a Federal High
Court in Lagos.
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.
Guardian reports that 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.
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