Patience Jonathan's money: Houseboy, driver's names used to open $15m accounts

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has captured four residential servants including a driver and a houseboy, whose names were utilized to open ledgers for Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. 

Sources within the anti-graft agency said on Sunday that the organizations' records were
opened at Skye Bank. 

The organizations are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited. 

The four organizations' records, which have since been solidified by the EFCC, have an equalization of about $15m while another record, which bears Patience Jonathan's name, has $5m. 

Mr. Sammie Somiari, who dismissed to an oath for the benefit of the ex-President's wife, said the former First Lady was the proprietor of the cash in the records. 

She had uncovered that she gave a great many dollars to the then Special Adviser to the President on Domestic Affairs, Waripamowei Dudafa, to open records for her. 

Somiari, nonetheless, asserted that Dudafa opened five records for Patience and that one and only of the records was in her name, while the other four were opened in the names of organizations having a place with Dudafa. 

A criminologist at the EFCC, in any case, uncovered that Dudafa utilized his residential servants' names to open the four different records and afterward saved the cash into the records. 

The agent included, "We were examining Dudafa when we unearthed those four organizations' domiciliary records opened at Skye Bank with an equalization of about $15m. On further examination, we could recognize the executives of the organizations. 

"When we kept the chiefs, we discovered that they were Dudafa's local workers. One of them was a houseboy while another was a driver. Their photos were utilized as a part of opening the records and their marks were manufactured. 

"We discovered that these household workers were totally guiltless in light of the fact that they had no entrance to the records. We have since discharged them. The sole signatory to the records was Patience Jonathan and she was issued with an uncommon card, which is acknowledged around the world. She has a different record, which was opened in her name and has an equalization of $5m."