With all due respect, the EFCC is a BIG THIEF! Patience Jonathan!

Patience Jonathan is the subject of an EFCC investigation regarding the source of the money but she has continued maintaining her innocence — even though the four individuals representing the

companies linked with the alleged laundering have pleaded guilty in court.

Dame Patience Jonathan, has described the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as “a big thief” for freezing her accounts with Skye Bank containing more than $15 million in all. The companies – Seagate Property Development & Investment Co. Limited; Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Development Company Limited – pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder $15 million.

Directors of the companies are domestic workers of Waripamowei Dudafa, Jonathan’s special adviser on domestic affairs. The former first lady had previously clarified that the $15m was for her foreign medical bills and other private expenses.

But responding in an open letter to the EFCC chairman released late Sunday night by her lawyers, FirstLaw Solicitors, she said it would be “counter-productive and inimical to the public interest” if the attorney general of the federation and/or the EFCC heeds the “irresponsible calls” for her arrest and prosecution “based on suspicion”.

On the freezing, her lawyers told Ibrahim Magu: “Sir, instead of strict compliance with the above pattern, as laid down by SECTION 36(6)(a) & (b) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the EFCC went after our Client’s money by ordering a freeze of her accounts. With all due respect, the EFCC is a BIG THIEF!”