More Troubles For Patience Jonathan Over $15.5m

*Rivers Government blocks EFCC’s access to ex-First Lady and Diezani’s title papers

Port Harcourt 
•Former Customs Service officers mess
•Two duplexes at 2/3 Bauchi Street 
•Landed property at Ambowei Street 
•Three Luxury apartments at Ambowei Street 
•Grand View Hotel on Airport Road

Yenagoa 
•Two marble duplexes at Otioko GRA 
•Glass House on Sani Abacha Expressway
•Akemfa Etie Plaza Melford Okilo Road
•Aridolf Resort on Sani Abacha Expressway

Detectives have stepped up the probe of Mrs. Patience Jonathan by retrieving her service records.

The retrieval of her records from Bayelsa State is part of the screening of her salary and emoluments as a retired permanent secretary to determine if her earnings could match the 13 assets traced to her.

Besides the assets, the former First Lady is laying claim to $15.5m in some domiciliary accounts.

The anti-graft agency has written the Rivers State Ministry of Lands and Survey for details on some assets linked with the former First Lady and a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

But Governor Nyesom Wike's officials have blocked access to the documents.

Some of the officials may be investigated for obstructing justice, a source told The Nation last night.

A source close to the investigation said there was no where in the records where the ex-First Lady earned foreign exchange as emoluments and estacodes amounting to over $15.5million she is claiming to own.

An EFCC source said: “This agency has retrieved the original service records of the ex-First Lady from Bayelsa State. Preliminary analysis of her records revealed a lot of discrepancies including issues regarding special promotions given to her which were faulted even by the Office of the Head of Service.

“More importantly, from her records, especially her pay packet of N700, 000, there is nowhere she earned as much as $1million not to talk of over $15million, which she is claiming ownership of.

“We have to go through her records and pay slips to prove that the $15million in question was undeserved and should be seized by the court. All her official estacodes and emoluments were not up to the amount being claimed.

“As far as we are concerned, she has questions to answer in line with Section 7 of the EFCC Act.”