EFCC: We’ve no case against Patience Jonathan

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday debunked claims that the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan is under any form of investigation by the anti-graft agency. She said such a report was mischievous. 

Waziri made this clarification while receiving representatives of the Women Empowering and Enriching Lives (WEEL), an Abuja based non-governmental organization, who paid her a courtesy visit at the EFCC’s corporate headquarters in Abuja .www.mannastores.com

The clarification is coming on the heels of renewed media reports that the anti-graft agency had on September 11, 2006, seized $13.5 million dollars ( USD ) from Mrs. Patience Jonathan, when she was then wife of the Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan. According to Waziri, the visit of the NGO provided her an opportunity to respond to several enquiries she had been getting on an alleged pending case against Mrs. Jonathan.