The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested four domestic servants, including a driver and a houseboy (steward), in connection to the investigation of Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, over alleged $15 million account.
According to the EFCC, the arrested servants had accounts opened for them at Skye Bank of which Mrs. Jonathan was the sole signatory, Punch reports.
In an affidavit deposited on behalf of the ex-President’s wife, she admitted to giving millions of dollars to the then Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa, to open accounts for her.
Dudafa then opened five accounts for Dame Patience with only one in her name, while the other four were opened in the names of companies belonging to Dudafa.
An EFCC detective disclosed that Dudafa used his domestic servants’ names to open the four other accounts.
“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,” he said.
“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.
“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 added that lawyer, Amajuoyi Briggs, who allegedly helped Dudafa to perpetrate the fraud, would also be arraigned while two Skye Bank executives were also being investigated.
Meanwhile Mrs. Jonathan has filed a fundamental rights suit against Skye Bank for freezing her bank accounts and giving the EFCC vital information about her finances.
She’s demanding the sum of N200m for what she termed a violation of her right to own personal property under Section 44 of the 1999 Constitution.
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Posted: at 12-09-2016 07:28 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
senatordee01 at 12-09-2016 07:31 AM (7 years ago) (m)
thats how u will expose, it is ur turn today, anode man tomaro my broda wch kind life be dis eeeee
Posted: at 12-09-2016 07:31 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Everybody na thief. Say dis last president humble does not mean they can rubbish him and his family every time. Who can probe dat OBJ daughter talk more of d father. Dis govt too na thieves plenty pass.
Posted: at 12-09-2016 09:57 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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Posted: at 12-09-2016 11:45 AM (7 years ago) | Upcoming
Buhari approach to curb corruption is a blocking obstacle to economy recovery and it was his approach that led the nation to this unprecedented economy stagnation .Corruption if fought to the edge has a severe effect on developing economy .Nigeria is no exemption and given the plutonic plate of Nigeria economy success of recent laying and founded up on corruption ,it's no surprise that if we fight corruption to the extreme it will collapse the economy structure of the nation .Though ,endemic corruption is epidemic and sabotage of the economy but it also fuel wealth distribution like what we witnessed in the lady administration ,when all were dancing azonto and every celebrity were buying the most exotic cars and erecting the best houses .So,in short term the impact will be felt tremendously but in long term only if it's sustainable the nation can benefit from a corrupt free society .until then it remained to be seen
Spare me
Posted: at 12-09-2016 04:39 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
kayveetee at 12-09-2016 06:01 PM (7 years ago) (m)
Quote from: CHRISETTE on 12-09-2016 05:08 PM
So an ex president wife can not have up to $ 5m in her account?
few days back she asked the EFCC 2 refund her $31 million dollars & now another $15 million has being linked 2 her. So please what da f**k are u talking about ?
Posted: at 12-09-2016 06:01 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
This is terrible, ask any person on the street toady, they may tell you that it was wrong, but if they were in her shoes they would do the same, this is because africans have short sight, and lack empathy for their people, also they do not know how to use their resources sustainably, and it is estimated that by 2025, our population would have increased to about 450 million.
Posted: at 12-09-2016 10:19 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Give power to a short sighted person, and they become thugs, they try to stock pile the public cash, some think they are humble when they talk to the public, they sound like they were crying and that their poor educational background made them like ordinary humble people. They wasted an opportunity because they were not the right persons, with poor background, they were simply occupying space, while we counted the wasted time.
Posted: at 12-09-2016 10:38 PM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
osarobo62 at 12-09-2016 11:30 PM (7 years ago) (m)
Quote from: crocatum on 12-09-2016 10:19 PM
This is terrible, ask any person on the street toady, they may tell you that it was wrong, but if they were in her shoes they would do the same, this is because africans have short sight, and lack empathy for their people, also they do not know how to use their resources sustainably, and it is estimated that by 2025, our population would have increased to about 450 million.
whoever made that prediction must have been drinking contaminated ogogoro. breakdown of Nigeria's pop.
2013----------173 million 2014----------178.5 m 2015-----------182 m 2016-----------188.
going by this average, by 2025 the estimate would be about 226 million people
Posted: at 12-09-2016 11:30 PM (7 years ago) | Hero
osarobo62 at 12-09-2016 11:38 PM (7 years ago) (m)
Quote from: WhaleDog on 12-09-2016 04:39 PM
Buhari approach to curb corruption is a blocking obstacle to economy recovery and it was his approach that led the nation to this unprecedented economy stagnation .Corruption if fought to the edge has a severe effect on developing economy .Nigeria is no exemption and given the plutonic plate of Nigeria economy success of recent laying and founded up on corruption ,it's no surprise that if we fight corruption to the extreme it will collapse the economy structure of the nation .Though ,endemic corruption is epidemic and sabotage of the economy but it also fuel wealth distribution like what we witnessed in the lady administration ,when all were dancing azonto and every celebrity were buying the most exotic cars and erecting the best houses .So,in short term the impact will be felt tremendously but in long term only if it's sustainable the nation can benefit from a corrupt free society .until then it remained to be seen
without intending to be disrespectful,....if you were an economist, i wouldn't even hire you to clear out my garbage.
Posted: at 12-09-2016 11:38 PM (7 years ago) | Hero