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"He said section 17 of AFFA which allowed assets to be seized from an individual without conviction, a hearing or a criminal charge whether temporarily or permanently was unconstitutional."



EFCC and corruption/ 5&6
They will milk the opposition dry and put the money in their pockets.

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Why are they "witch-hunting" this witch over a paltry sum of $8.4m only?

#inthevoiceofchildrenofhatred

SultanYoung:
I wonder how human can be such greedy and heartless how can you gather such huge amount of illigal money at your disposal when you really have a short life span to live on earth what do you intend to do with it huh? May be she and diezini are planning to build a new country. On a serious not how can you give account of all that money in the present of the lord how?

my broad, it baffles me a lot .

Omooba77:
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed an order of interim forfeiture made by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court in respect of the sum of $8.4m linked to the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.



The five-man bench of the apex court led by Justice Dattijo Muhammad, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the ex-First Lady’s appeal and directed her to return to the Federal High Court to show cause why the funds should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.



The court also rejected her prayer to strike down the provisions of section 17 of the Advanced Fee Fraud Act and other Fraud related offences Act, which was relied on by the Federal High Court to issue the order of interim forfeiture.

Upholding the decision of the Court of Appeal in Lagos, which had affirmed the Federal High Court’s interim order, Justice Kumai Aka’ahs, in the lead judgment of the apex court on Friday, held, “I do not find any reason to interfere with the decision of the lower court”.



Justice Aka’ahs added, ” Appellant is to go back to the trial court (the Federal High Court) to show cause why the interim order should not be made permanent.”

The lead judgment was read on behalf of Justice Aka’ahs by Justice Ejembi Eko, also a member of the panel.

Other members of the five-man panel, Justices Muhammad, John Okoro, Eko, and Sidi Bage, agreed with Justice Aka’ah’s lead judgment.

The EFCC had last year approached the Federal High Court in Lagos with an ex parte application seeking the forfeiture of the sum of $8,435,788.84 and other various sums in various bank accounts linked to the wife of the former President.

The anti-graft agency, in its application anchored on section 17 of AFFA, had urged the court to grant an order of interim forfeiture of the funds which they said were suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities.



Patience Jonathan and others including some organisations were joined in the said ex parte application as respondents.

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos had on April 20, 2018 granted the ex parte order.

She also ordered the EFCC to publish the court’s order in any major national newspaper to enable the respondents or anyone interested in the funds to appear before the court to show cause within 14 days why the final order of forfeiture of the said funds should not be made in favour of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Instead of appearing before the court to show cause as directed by the court, she had filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal to challenge the competence of the ex parte application filed by the EFCC to request the order of interim forfeiture.

She also in her appeal challenged the validity of the order made by the trial court and the constitutionality of section 17 of AFFA.

The Court of Appeal in Lagos dismissed her appeal prompting her to approach the Supreme Court to rule in her favour.

Arguing her appeal on December 12, 2018, her lead counsel, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), urged the Supreme Court to quash section 17 of AFFA which he contended negated the principles of fair hearing and presumption of innocence prescribed in the Constitution.

He said section 17 of AFFA which allowed assets to be seized from an individual without conviction, a hearing or a criminal charge whether temporarily or permanently was unconstitutional.

He also said the ex parte application which the trial court granted failed to disclose the alleged “unlawful activities”, the funds were linked to.

Responding, EFCC’s lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, said the appellant’s appeal was based on a misconception about the provision of section 17 of AFFA.

He said there was nothing unconstitutional about the said provision which he said provides an opportunity to the affected person to be heard on the temporarily forfeited assets.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the appeal and upheld the decisions of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal.

https://punchng.com/just-in-supreme-court-affirms-interim-forfeiture-of-patience-jonathans-8-4m/

About N3billion

It shall not be well with the looters of our treasury.

And to think that some people actually want PDP back.

We need to stop deceiving ourselves by saying Buhari is fighting corruption. There is nobody fighting corruption in Nigeria. Corruption was a chief in the 16 year rule of PDP and even before then. Corruption is a king now in the roughly 4 year rule of PMB and the king might even become more powerful in the next 4 years of PMB presidency.

You can only fight corruption by putting up strong institution to try to prevent corruption. There is no individual however powerful that can ever fight corruption. It has never happened before and I am sure it will not happen in my life time. Let those who chose to be deceived continue to merry in the party of their deceit.

Infact, recovering stolen money is not fighting corruption. To understand this, let's try to understand what corruption is. I find the definition transparency international very instructive.

"Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain"

So anytime there is an abuse of power for private gain, there is corruption. So, if we try to review the activities of our so called leaders including PMB, we will realise they are all enmeshed in one form of corruption or the other and that is why the country has remained ever backwards and refuse to develop.

If we as a people ever want this country to grow we should stop chasing shadows and demand leadership from the so called leaders. So PMB should stop saying he is fighting corruption, rather he should do his little bit in providing good leadership. This is what is happening with developed countries, they try to build stronger institutions that will help them reduce corruption. Africa and Nigeria will continue to be backwards when a president keeps saying he is fighting corruption. A president can keep fighting the opposition but definitely not corruption.

Mama Pee....

God pass you sha. Which job did she do to have such an amount?

And to think that, that's just the ones discovered oh. God help us. These peope really looted Nigeria

Teenaira:
We need to stop deceiving ourselves by saying Buhari is fighting corruption. There is nobody fighting corruption in Nigeria. Corruption was a chief in the 16 year rule of PDP and even before then. Corruption is a king now in the roughly 4 year rule of PMB and the king might even become more powerful in the next 4 years of PMB presidency.

You can only fight corruption by putting up strong institution to try to prevent corruption. There is no individual however powerful that can ever fight corruption. It has never happened before and I am sure it will not happen in my life time. Let those who chose to be deceived continue to merry in the party of their deceit.

Infact, recovering stolen money is not fighting corruption. To understand this, let's try to understand what corruption is. I find the definition transparency international very instructive.

"Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain"

So anytime there is an abuse of power for private gain, there is corruption. So, if we try to review the activities of our so called leaders including PMB, we will realise they are all enmeshed in one form of corruption or the other and that is why the country has remained ever backwards and refuse to develop.

If we as a people ever want this country to grow we should stop chasing shadows and demand leadership from the so called leaders. So PMB should stop saying he is fighting corruption, rather he should do his little bit in providing good leadership. This is what is happening with developed countries, they try to build stronger institutions that will help them reduce corruption. Africa and Nigeria will continue to be backwards when a president keeps saying he is fighting corruption. A president can keep fighting the opposition but definitely not corruption.

This one forgot to take his drugs again...


Even with all the convictions made. Even with the abandoned hard currencies in airports, warehouses and houses....


Go and take your drugs please

AfonjaBoston:
Idiotic illiterate Barren woman
Her fish pussssyyy and womb has been cursed

This is highly distasteful. You dont have to go this extreme.

SillyMods:
Imagine! Jonathan and his wife plus their gang of looters remain the worst thing to happen to Nigeria.

Since 2015, I became one of those who hold the postulation that The Almighty God indeed loves Nigeria. The first reason is the triumph of PMB at the polls then. The most recent reason is also the outcome of the 2019 presidential election which Buhari won by almost 4 million votes.

Had PMB not won the 2015 election, our case would have been worse than that of Greece and Venezuela combined. And had Atiku found a way to rig the 2019 election, people like Diezani, Madam Patience, Dasuki and other high class looters and thieves would be walkng free and flaunting their looted wealth on our face.

The thought of FFK, Fayose, Diezani, Omokri and their likes becoming our ministers and leaders is nauseating!


Meanwhile, the millions of dollars seized by EFCC at Enugu Airport (?) which UBA claimed to be the owner has not been claimed till this day!


Thank God for Buhari. Thank you Buhari.

Very well said.

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According to PDP Igbo analysis this is the reason why Buhari is corrupt. He should have allowed the Ebeles to loot Nigeria to death after all same Buhari said abacha did not steal

Awon Oloriburuku dede!

Omooba77:
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed an order of interim forfeiture made by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court in respect of the sum of $8.4m linked to the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan.



The five-man bench of the apex court led by Justice Dattijo Muhammad, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the ex-First Lady’s appeal and directed her to return to the Federal High Court to show cause why the funds should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.



The court also rejected her prayer to strike down the provisions of section 17 of the Advanced Fee Fraud Act and other Fraud related offences Act, which was relied on by the Federal High Court to issue the order of interim forfeiture.

Upholding the decision of the Court of Appeal in Lagos, which had affirmed the Federal High Court’s interim order, Justice Kumai Aka’ahs, in the lead judgment of the apex court on Friday, held, “I do not find any reason to interfere with the decision of the lower court”.



Justice Aka’ahs added, ” Appellant is to go back to the trial court (the Federal High Court) to show cause why the interim order should not be made permanent.”

The lead judgment was read on behalf of Justice Aka’ahs by Justice Ejembi Eko, also a member of the panel.

Other members of the five-man panel, Justices Muhammad, John Okoro, Eko, and Sidi Bage, agreed with Justice Aka’ah’s lead judgment.

The EFCC had last year approached the Federal High Court in Lagos with an ex parte application seeking the forfeiture of the sum of $8,435,788.84 and other various sums in various bank accounts linked to the wife of the former President.

The anti-graft agency, in its application anchored on section 17 of AFFA, had urged the court to grant an order of interim forfeiture of the funds which they said were suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities.



Patience Jonathan and others including some organisations were joined in the said ex parte application as respondents.

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos had on April 20, 2018 granted the ex parte order.

She also ordered the EFCC to publish the court’s order in any major national newspaper to enable the respondents or anyone interested in the funds to appear before the court to show cause within 14 days why the final order of forfeiture of the said funds should not be made in favour of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Instead of appearing before the court to show cause as directed by the court, she had filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal to challenge the competence of the ex parte application filed by the EFCC to request the order of interim forfeiture.

She also in her appeal challenged the validity of the order made by the trial court and the constitutionality of section 17 of AFFA.

The Court of Appeal in Lagos dismissed her appeal prompting her to approach the Supreme Court to rule in her favour.

Arguing her appeal on December 12, 2018, her lead counsel, Mr. Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), urged the Supreme Court to quash section 17 of AFFA which he contended negated the principles of fair hearing and presumption of innocence prescribed in the Constitution.

He said section 17 of AFFA which allowed assets to be seized from an individual without conviction, a hearing or a criminal charge whether temporarily or permanently was unconstitutional.

He also said the ex parte application which the trial court granted failed to disclose the alleged “unlawful activities”, the funds were linked to.

Responding, EFCC’s lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, said the appellant’s appeal was based on a misconception about the provision of section 17 of AFFA.

He said there was nothing unconstitutional about the said provision which he said provides an opportunity to the affected person to be heard on the temporarily forfeited assets.

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the appeal and upheld the decisions of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal.

https://punchng.com/just-in-supreme-court-affirms-interim-forfeiture-of-patience-jonathans-8-4m/

SillyMods:
Imagine! Jonathan and his wife plus their gang of looters remain the worst thing to happen to Nigeria.

Since 2015, I became one of those who hold the postulation that The Almighty God indeed loves Nigeria. The first reason is the triumph of PMB at the polls then. The most recent reason is also the outcome of the 2019 presidential election which Buhari won by almost 4 million votes.

Had PMB not won the 2015 election, our case would have been worse than that of Greece and Venezuela combined. And had Atiku found a way to rig the 2019 election, people like Diezani, Madam Patience, Dasuki and other high class looters and thieves would be walkng free and flaunting their looted wealth on our face.

The thought of FFK, Fayose, Diezani, Omokri and their likes becoming our ministers and leaders is nauseating!


Meanwhile, the millions of dollars seized by EFCC at Enugu Airport (?) which UBA claimed to be the owner has not been claimed till this day!


Thank God for Buhari. Thank you Buhari.

Do you remembe prior to the election 2014/15 dollars was going up to #500 / dollar, until it got to #520 / dollar in 2016 just because GEJ withdrew $295m from gov coffers , his wife stealing like tomorrow no dey.
Alison madueke stealing from NNPC like she got the place for ever, bought 58 Mansions in different plarts in Nigeria within her two years . Nothing more to call this than greed and madness.

GEJ took his loot and shared to kings in the SouthWest, nollywood actors and actresses, different categories of people in the southwest thinking that Southwest people are like them in niger delta that can sell their conscience for Dollars.
All these reckless lootings made Nigeria to enter recession and PDP are now quick to blame PMB for not performing miracle to bring Nigeria out of recession within two years.

Now 2019 election came dollar was stable against naira for two years now. Which was not the case 2014/15.

PDP has shown over the years to be party of looters and for the looters.
And God will never allow them get back there because so far they have not learned any lessons . They only want to get to power to enrich themselves and friends and they can only do that by selling off Nigeria Assets. Which Atiku has said he would do if elected.
They have no plan for the common man .
Over 300 Nigeria assets Atiku sold as head of economic team when he was VP where are they now ??
They have all gone underground and moribund..
That is why he can not mention anyone of them that is working today in his campaign nationwide.
What a looting of Nigeria over 16 years.

Never again will God bring PDP back.
They are as good as gone.
PDP is not an alternative.