The former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to court slamming the anti-graft commission with N2 billion suit.
The suit was pronounced on the order of 2 Rule 1 of 2009, Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules and Sections 34(1) 36(1), 37, 42 and 44 of 1999 Constitution as amended.
In the lawsuit, the former first lady through her lawyer said:
“I, A. Adedipe (SAN), is asking the court for an order for general damages/compensation in the sum of N2bn only against the EFCC jointly and severally for the violation of her fundamental rights.”
Mrs Jonathan in the suit stated that the EFCC had incessantly harassed her through ill-gotten media publications, denigrating her personality and painting her as a corrupt individual without any invitation, trial or conviction by a court.
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She also said the indiscriminate freezing of her bank accounts and those which belonged to her relatives by the EFCC under the guise of investigation of proceeds of crime, without any invitation or interrogation by the respondent was a violation of her rights to her own property and to fair hearing as enshrined in Sections 44 and 36(1) of the 1999 Constitution.
“A declaration that the invasion, breaking into and ransacking of the applicant’s family property by the agents of the respondent in the absence of the applicant or any member of her family, while purporting to be executing a search warrant is a violation of the applicant’s fundamental human rights to private and family life guaranteed under the provisions of Section 37 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
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“A declaration that the incessant harassment of the applicant by the respondent on the ground of her political views expressed by reason of her being a member of the opposition party in Nigeria, is a violation of the applicant’s fundamental human right to freedom from discrimination, guaranteed under Section 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
“An order of court restraining the respondent, whether by itself, its agents, privies or any person acting on its behalf from further violating the applicant’s fundamental rights adumbrated above.”
The case which has been presided over by Justice John Tsoho and will be heard further, on November 16, 2017.
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