This may be a thought provoking question to some persons, while is welcome development for others. Whatever your take on this issue may be, it is left for the Court of law to decide if or not the accounts should remain frozen or unblock the EFCC restrained order.
If you will remember, two weeks ago, the EFCC claimed Nigerian Ex-first lady; Patience Jonathan is in another fresh trouble as they have traced a whopping $175m to her.

According to a report by The Nation newspaper, the deposits were found in the account of Pluto Property and Investment Limited, one of the firms linked to Mrs. Jonathan.
EFCC detectives discovered that the account was opened on November 30, 2013 by Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited with number 2110002238.

The company was registered on January 29, 2013 with RC 1092722. The “strange” deposits came within 14 months.
The deposits are: 21/2/2014—$46,500,000; 24/2/2014—$31,000,000; 31/3/2015—$49,250,000; 1/4/ 2015—$49,000,000 without any form of business transactions within this stipulated period by the company. But here was another problem; the money has been withdrawn without traces.

All these make things phishing, as if someone is playing on someone’s intelligence.

Read on as I detained what hap as the legal representatives of the parties involved ague home their various points using various legal jargon as why and not about the frozen acclaimed billions of Mrs. Patience Jonathan.

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday rejected an application by the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, seeking to bar the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from tampering with a sum of $15.591 frozen in four Skye Bank accounts.
The EFCC placed a ‘No Debit Order’ on the four bank accounts in July while probing Jonathan’s former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, for money laundering.

But Patience, who had laid claim to the money, filed a fundamental rights enforcement action against the EFCC, Skye Bank, Dudafa and the four companies in whose names the accounts were opened.
She is urging the court to order the EFCC to remove the ‘No Debit Order’ on the accounts and to release the $15.5m to her.
At the Tuesday’s proceedings in the case before Justice Mohammed Idris, Patience’s lawyer, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), made an oral application, urging the judge to restrain the EFCC from tampering with the money pending the final determination of the case.

But the EFCC lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, opposed him, arguing that the four companies who owned the four bank accounts had been convicted of money laundering by Justice Babs Kuewumi of the same court.
“We pray the court to dismiss the application with a wave of hand. There is an order of the court that has convicted the fourth to seventh defendants for warehousing the proceeds of crime,” Oyedepo said.

He argued that the case before Justice Kuewumi would be prejudiced should Justice Idris restrain the EFCC from tampering with the money.
Oyedepo also contended that Patience did not have the locus standi to make such an application, and expressed doubt as to the validity of the addresses of the fourth to seventh defendants where Patience claimed to have served the originating summons.
Dudafa’s lawyer, Mr. Gboyega Oyewole, however, said the court bailiff had already deposed to an affidavit that the fourth to seventh defendants had been served.

In a short ruling, Justice Idris said he would rather grant an accelerated hearing of the case, than make any order that would prejudice the outcome of the main case.
He adjourned till December 7, 2016 for the hearing of the main case.

Earlier in the proceedings, Justice Idris acknowledged a letter from Skye Bank’s lawyer, Lanre Ogunlesi, stating that he was indisposed and would not be able to come to court on Tuesday.
Matters arising are: is the sitting government using this anti-graft agency to hunt for her enemies or by anyway trying to look for any linking issue to trap the ex-president?

Home many of these so called corrupt persons have been sentence or penalizes in accordance with the law of the land?

These and many other questions from the desk of NaijaOption.com…your opinion is highly welcome, and superior argument without any forms of insult is allowed.

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Yes if they only they are releasing it to me

YES and dey should leave her alone

How long will it take EFCC to trace the whole $175m and use it for N-power?