Five different accounts of ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan have been frozen by Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos.
The order is coming following an exparte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over Mrs. Jonathan’s accounts in Ecobank Plc, Skye Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Diamond Bank Plc and Fidelity Bank Plc.
This is the second time, the accounts of the ex-First lady is being frozen over allegations bothering on money laundering.
The judge, however, ordered the anti-graft agency to enter into an undertaking to pay damages to Mrs Jonathan if it turns out that the order should not have been made.
This ex-parte application was supported by an originating summons sworn to by Abdullahi Tukur, an operative of EFCC, and filed before the court by EFCC prosecutor, Rotimi Oyedepo requesting the court to urgently direct the managers of the bank accounts contained in the schedule filed with the summons (FHC/L/CS/1343/16) to, in the interim, forfeit the money in the accounts, to prevent further tampering with such.
According to the EFCC, it carried out the analyses after receiving an intelligence report, which showed that the accounts ought to be investigated.
Tukur further averred that it would serve the course of justice to grant the application for such.
