Wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, on
Thursday alleged that the four persons who pleaded guilty to money laundering
charges on behalf of the four companies linked to her were mercenaries hired by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
A statement by her media aide, Chima Osuji, described the
persons as “unknown” and were never authorised by the companies’ boards to
plead guilty on behalf of the companies.
Patience Jonathan argued that the EFCC failed to comply with
Section 477 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, by not
presenting to the court on Thursday any letter to show that the four persons
were authorised by the companies to represent them.
“This is a clear evidence of the desperation of the
prosecution to pull down the former First Lady and confiscate her hard-earned
money.
“It is an irony that it was the former First Lady who went
to court for the repatriation of her confiscated money when she realised that
the EFCC and its co-travellers were playing politics with this issue after she
had come out publicly to say that the said money belongs to her and that she
has all evidence to prove the sources of her money.
“Up till this very moment, the EFCC has refused to
interrogate or invite her for questioning. The biggest twist in court on
Thursday was that the fourth to seventh defendants pleaded guilty to all the 15
counts.
“It is clear that these unknown faces were agents of the
EFCC, who have been stage-managed and tutored to come to court to complicate
the case as a strategy to confiscate her money,” Patience Jonathan said.
-dailypost
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