A militant group in the Niger Delta region has vowed to blow
up the Headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, if
wife of the immediate past president of the country, Patience Jonathan, is
arrested
following the money laundering allegation leveled against her by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The ex-first lady had claimed the EFCC had frozen her bank
account where she kept some millions of dollars.
Several individual and cooperate bodies have called for the
arrest of the ex-president’s wife so she could give account of how she got the
money, while she had also issued the anti-graft agency a 14-day ultimatum to unfreeze
her account.
EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, had earlier confirmed that the
agency is currently investigating a sum of $15,591,700, which was traced to
accounts belonging to Patience.
However, the Niger Delta People’s Professional Volunteer
Force, NDPPVF, yesterday threatened to blow up the headquarters of the nation’s
oil firm and shut down the economy if she is arrested.
They said in a statement, “Nobody is above the law. The
NDPPVF does not support or condone corruption. If Mrs. Jonathan was found to be
corrupt, we shall not hesitate to call for her prosecution.”
“We, however, have a grouse with the modus operandi of Mrs.
Jonathan’s investigation, given her status as the wife of a former deputy
governor, former governor, former vice-president, former acting president and
finally, former president. She is perhaps, the only Nigerian woman – dead or
alive – with such an impressive and fortuitous pedigree; which accounts for why
the EFCC needs to thread with caution.
“Recently, there have been calls on the Attorney-General of
the Federation as well as the EFCC to arrest and prosecute the former First
Lady for alleged money laundering.
“We shall simultaneously bomb the 4 wings of the NNPC Towers
the day it is announced that Mrs. Patience Goodluck Jonathan has been arrested.
The group added that, “before her husband emerged as
vice-president in 2007, the EFCC investigated Mrs. Jonathan and cleared her of
any wrongdoing.”
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