$15m In My Account Was For Medical Bills – Patience Jonathan

Dame Patience Jonathan, former First Lady of Nigeria, has written a letter to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), elucidating that she was using the $15 million, which was frozen in four companies’ accounts, to settle medical bills while she was out of the country.

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In a letter with reference number GA/Abibo/00226/2016, written by her lawyers, Granville Abibo (SAN) and Co, which was addressed to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, Patience, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, hence, called on the anti graft agency and Skye Bank to lift the restriction on the accounts.

The letter read in part, “It is noteworthy to emphasise that the said accounts, which were in US dollar denomination, were card-based accounts and our client is the sole signatory to these accounts.

“However, our client has been operating the said accounts using the cards for her medical bill payments and purchases for her private purposes without any let or hindrance.

“Our client was therefore surprised when the said cards stop functioning on July 7, 2016, or thereabout. Our client immediately, thereupon, contacted Skye Bank Plc through our solicitors.

‘‘It was only then that the bank officials informed our client that the said accounts were placed on a ‘No Debit Order’ following investigations and instruction from your commission and this is without notice to our client by either the bank or the commission.

“It is in the light of the foregoing that we urge you to use your good offices to vacate the ‘No Debit/Freezing Order’ placed on the said accounts.”

She added, “Despite the foregoing, our client, who is a law-abiding citizen, had watched with surprise how efforts were being made surreptitiously to indirectly harass or harangue her and short-change her of her personal funds in breach of her fundamental human rights.

“We urge you sir, to kindly intervene to stop the untoward and wrongful actions of your officials to embarrass, inconvenience and short-change our client”.

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