The troubles of the former First Lady, Patience Jonathan are being compounded each day. The dust of the brouhaha over the freezing of $20m found in her account is yet to settle that a story of a 5-star hotel in Port Harcourt surfaced. Now, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has linked with five choice properties including a N5 billion hotel in Abuja.
This is according to report in the Nation. One of the pieces of evidence the EFCC has in its possession in its probe of the ex-First Lady is her cumulative pay and perks as a civil servant in Bayelsa State where she rose to the post of Permanent Secretary.
The pay details are far below the $31 million which the ex-First Lady claimed as her legitimately earned money.
The EFCC is insisting that Mrs. Jonathan must account for how she came about the cash wired into the five accounts to which she is a signatory or forfeit it to the Federal Government.
A source told The Nation: “Based on intelligence report, we have isolated five properties allegedly identified with the ex-First Lady. These properties include a N5billion hotel in Abuja and four others in Yenagoa and Port Harcourt.
“A special team has gone to verify all these assets in the affected areas including the contractors engaged, the mode of payment to them, relevant land registration documents, and associates used as fronts.
“In the next few days, we will start questioning all those involved in the acquisition or building of the assets. We are lucky that this investigation has a lot of e-transaction and computerization components. There is no hiding place for anyone involved.
