- The wife of former president, Goodluck
Jonathan has continued her ongoing battle
with the EFCC
- Patience Jonathan recently had her staff
remove all inscriptions the commission had
put on her hotel
- The hotel worth N2bn was reportedly
under investigation, but she seems to be
daring the anti-graft agency
Patience Jonathan, has recovered her N2bn
hotel which was sealed off by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in
June 2017.
The EFCC had placed the red inscriptions
saying: ‘EFCC Under Investigation’ all over the
hotel which is located near Setraco
Construction Company, off the Mabushi Kado
Expressway.
However, according to The Punch, recently,
the EFCC inscriptions had been covered with
patches of grey paint.
Three men who spoke to the press said they
acted on the instruction of Mrs Jonathan.
When asked if they had the right to enter
the building, one of them said:
“Go and ask the EFCC if they had the right to
put their sign all over the building in the first
place. If you want more information, go and
ask madam.”
Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesman for the
EFCC said he did not know much about the
seizure of the building and thus could not
say if it had been returned to Patience or
not.
He also told the press: “I have spoken to the
appropriate people but I was not able to get
any answer on the matter.”
However, an unnamed source at the EFCC,
said it was wrong of Patience to have
erased the EFCC inscription from the
building.
He said: “Sometimes when we are
investigating some politically exposed
persons, they immediately begin to sell off
their buildings in order to cover their tracks
and run away with the cash so that is why
we put EFCC signs on the buildings so that
innocent people will not buy those
buildings.
“As it is, she has removed the inscriptions
and can quickly sell it off.”
Mrs Jonathan’s lawyer, Ifedayo Adedipe
(SAN), said he was not aware of the seizure
of the property.
Adedipe said if the hotel in question was
indeed seized through a court order, then
the removal of the EFCC inscriptions would
be of no effect.
He said: “I am not aware of the seizure of
property. If the EFCC seal was removed from
the property, let them go and put another
one.
"In any case, we have sued the EFCC for
abuse of her human rights and human
dignity. The matter is pending before the
Federal High Court in Abuja and everything
has been included in that suit.
“We are challenging all the seizures because
without prejudice to our case, Mrs. Jonathan
was neither a public officer nor a contractor.
So, the idea of harassing her beats my
imagination.
“I don’t see the basis for the EFCC’s
harassment of that woman and the case
wears a political toga because she was a
formidable element during the campaign.”

https://www.naij.com/1123506-patience-jonathan-recovers-n2bn-hotel-efcc-removes-notices.html

I think an arrest is in order and overdue here.no one is bigger than nigeria.up buhari.ftc?