Mrs Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President
Goodluck Jonathan, has filed a N2 billion rights enforcement suit against the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
In the suit filed
at the Federal High Court in Abuja, the former first lady is praying for an
order for general damages and compensation in the sum of N2 billion against the
EFCC for the violation of her fundamental rights. Mrs Jonathan alleged in the suit that the
EFCC has incessantly harassed her through negative media publications, denigrating
and degrading her person as corrupt, without any invitation, trial or
conviction by a court. She wants the court to declare that the said harassment
is a violation of her rights under section 37 of the 1999 Constitution.
She is also
seeking a declaration that the “indiscriminate” freezing of her bank accounts
and those of her relatives by the EFCC under the guise of investigation of
proceeds of crime, without any invitation or interrogation by the respondent is
a violation of her rights to own property and to fair hearing guaranteed under
sections 44 and 36(1) of the 1999 Constitution. She further asked for “an order
of court restraining the EFCC or any person acting on its behalf from further
violating” her fundamental rights. The case has been assigned to Justice John
Tsoho and will come up on November 16, 2017, for hearing.
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