Patience Jonathan reveals how EFCC got guilty plea against ‘her’ companies
Another
twist has been added to the arraignment of a former presidential aide,
Waripomei Dudafa, alongside 2 others and four companies.
Former
First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has accused the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, of presenting it’s agents in court as company
representatives to plead guilty.
According to the Mrs Jonathan, the action of the EFCC was aimed to confiscating her money.
She,
in a statement issued by her media aide, Yemi Akinbode, also denied
that accounts were used for money laundering, alleging that the EFCC has
been churning out tissues of lies, which she is constrained to respond
to.
The statement read in part: “That Mrs. Patience Ibifaka
Jonathan is laying claim to ownership of a whopping sum of $31.7 million
dollars fund recovered by EFCC is a complete fallacy. Mrs. Jonathan
does not own and has never owned such amount of money. The reason for
this lie is best known to the EFCC.
“That another sum of $20
million dollars has been traced to Mrs. Patience Ibifaka Jonathan, is
again, another falsehood aimed at hoodwinking the public against Mrs.
Jonathan.
“That
a further sum of $5 million dollars has again being traced to another
account of Mrs. Patience Jonathan. This is also a fallacy.
“That
Mrs. Patience Jonathan opened accounts in the names of cooks, drivers
and artisans. This is perhaps the biggest falsehood to the knowledge of
EFCC.”
According the former First Lady, the authenticity of the
representatives of the four companies who pleaded guilty to charges of
money laundering were in doubt.
Quoting her lawyer, Gboyega
Oyewole, the statement said Mrs Jonathan would appeal the validity of
the representatives of Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited,
Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean
Property and Investment Company Limited and Avalon Global Property
Development Company Limited.
Mrs Jonathan’s was also said to have
alleged that the prosecution presented four unknown people as the
companies’ representatives, all of whom did not show letters authorising
them by their respective boards to represent them in the case.
“This
is a clear evidence of the desperation of the prosecution to pull down
the former First Lady and confiscate her hard-earned money,” the
statement quoted Oyewole as saying.
Mrs Jonathan said: “This is an
irony. I was the one who went to court for the repatriation of my
confiscated money when I realised that the EFCC and its co-travelers
were playing politics with this issue after I had come out publicly to
say that the said money belongs to me and that I have all evidence to
prove the sources of my money.
“Up till this very moment, EFCC has
refused to interrogate or invite me for questioning, while the agency
has continued to detain Dudafa under heavy armed security guards.
“The
biggest twist in court on Thursday (yesterday) was that the fourth to
seventh defendants pleaded guilty to all the 15-count charges. It is
clear that these unknown faces were agents of the EFCC, who have been
stage-managed and tutored to come to court to complicate the case as a
strategy to confiscate my money”. she said.
Wonders shall never end
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