COURT ORDERS PATIENCE JONATHAN TO PAY N 50,000 EFCC

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt,Rivers state,on monday ordered Patience Jonathan to pay N50,000 to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after she withdrew her suit against the EFCC.

Patience had in February sued the EFCC for the alleged breach of her fundamental human rights.She asked Justice Saliu Saidu to declare that the freezing of her $20m bank accounts and those of her relatives by the anti-graft agency as a gross violation of her rights to fair hearing and to own property.






Mrs Jonathan asked the court to ruled that the ransacking of her family property by the officials of the EFCC was illegal and also demanded the payment of N2bn in damages.