Patience Jonathan to EFCC: You have no right to seize my $31.4m; ex-First Lady sues anti-graft commission, Skye Bank

For placing a No Debit/Freezing Order on some accounts
traced to four companies and an account in her own name in Skye Bank, former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has sued the bank and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
To her, the anti-graft agency has no right to seize the $31.4 million in the accounts since it belongs to her.
Mrs. Jonathan, who filed an application on September 6, with file number FHC/L/C5/1233/16, claims ownership of the $31.4 million involved in an alleged fraud case before a Federal High Court, Lagos.
The EFCC had arraigned Globus Integrated Services Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited, Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, former Skye Bank official, Damola Bolodeoku and former presidential aide, Amajuoyi Azubike Briggs, for the alleged $31.4 million fraud involving the companies without addresses.‎
A counsel to one of the defendants, Gboyega Oduwole, informed the court that Mrs. Jonathan filed a fundamental application against the EFCC, claiming ownership of the money.
The former First Lady is seeking the court order to enforce her fundamental rights, in terms of reliefs she sought, one of which is that the court should make a declaration that the fund standing to the credit of four of the companies and an account in her own name in Skye Bank belonged to her.
She also asked the court to declare that the action of the EFCC and Skye Bank in placing a No Debit/Freezing Order on the accounts without any order of a competent court of law or prior notice to her, is a breach of her fundamental rights as contained in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.‎