We gathered that on thursday The wife of former president Goodluck jonathan, the Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force were said to have raided the house of Dame Patience Jonathan, in Abuja on Wednesday, with the aim of uncovering huge foreign currencies accused that she kept in the building.
Two many sources that is familiar with the investigation have trust in one of our correspondents on Thursday that the security people sudden attacked the house on a tip-off that huge amount, accused believed that she stolen government money, was kept in the building located at Igbeti Rock, Maitama, Abuja.
The operation, which took place by operatives of the Special Investigation Panel, headed by Mr Ali Amodu the retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, acted at the behest of the Federal Government Asset Recovery and Forfeiture Committee.
According to the Sources he explained that has small piece of informant to the Federal Government about accused huge stolen money starched in the building and in three other different places in the Federal Capital Territory.
It was understand that the informant, who told the government about the cash in the Maitama property, had indirectly that the suspect planned to move the money anytime.
Following the smart report, the SIP operatives take over the duplex on Wednesday, but did not find any money in the building.
A source further said that the policemen did not know that the house belonged to Jonathan until she identified herself as a former First Lady to the team leader,Adebo Williams the Assistant Commissioner of Police, on the telephone.
the security men in the house, said that the house belonged to one Jaga, a Rivers State indigene, and the team leader was directed to put a call across to the owner.
“The security man handed the phone to the team leader and the owner now identified herself as former First Lady.
“She spoke with them in pidgin English and she order the operatives to go and take whatever they kept in the building.
The team leader ask her to send her lawyer and she did according to what the told her.
The house were thoroughly searched in the president of the lawyer’s .
It was said that the team found the first of the twin duplex had not been live for a very long time now.
The men, found some company documents, three Diamond bank accounts cheque leaves, which were taken away for further checking.
According to the source he said, that the second duplex was also filled with cobwebs and the found four big security safes inside of it.
But the four security safes were seen opened and in clean condition, and also indicate that they have been in use.
A senior officer stated that the found a bulletproof Porsche jeep and a BMW car locked up in the motor garage.
Police allegations desiring to persecution of former President’s wife counsel
In his reaction,Mr Charles Ogboli Patience Jonathan’s lawyer, explained the allegations by the police that they had information of huge foreign currencies brought into the house as unfounded.
He argued that the sudden attack was a desiring to persecution of the former first lady, adding that there was no huge safe in the family house.
He said that the search that took place on Mrs. Jonathan’s house without her noticed meant that the police intended to do something else other than searching the hole house.
Mr Ogboli the former president first lady lawyer, spoke with one of our correspondents on the telephone,he also send the claim that a huge amount of cash was moved out of the house before the police came in at the house to conduct the search.
Mr Ogboli Charles further said , “I wonder what they (police) want to gain from all these.
In the report the sent, they noted that there is no incriminating document or whatever that was found there.
You should understand that this is not the first time that the environment were sudden attacked.
NDLEA and EFCC found nothing in the building.
The NDLEA interest in this matter is just the money ? They said that they got information that there was a huge amount of money in the building.
Are they saying that within a certain period of time they arrived, the money disappeared in thin of the Air just with the space of 30 minutes?
“As the spoke, the siblings of the former first lady are not staying there any longer.
They have gone back to Port Harcourt for more than a year now, the said.
So, there is nothing they (police) can accused that is found and that means they are trying to do something else in the buildings.
“There is nothing of such accusations, the information that there is a huge safe and that they saw bulletproof cars.
The source further said, That you find a car in a place and saw a huge safe are trivial issues because these are human beings that were living good ever before the husband became a public officer.
“ the former president wife (Patience) did not allowed them to go ahead with the search .”
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