Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has accused the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of hiring assassins to kill
her.
The ex-First Lady made the allegations in a letter written
to the House of Representatives on Monday.
According to Mrs. Jonathan, she had survived two
assassination attempts on her life, believed to have been championed by the
anti-graft agency.
She pleaded with the lower chamber of the National Assembly
to come to her rescue before the anti-graft agency succeeded in its plot to
eliminate her.
According to the letter written by her lawyers, Granville
Abibo (SAN) & Co, Mrs Jonathan said the attempt at her life was made
between February and April, 2017.
“There have been assassination attempts, at least twice,
between February and April, 2017, against our client ostensibly by the
operatives of the EFCC along the Yenagoa-Mbaima Road, Bayelsa State, in
furtherance of its unlawful actions against the former first family,” the
letter stated.
She also alleged that the agency had bugged her phones and
that its agents had been threatening her though text messages.
“The EFCC and its agents have repeatedly bugged the personal
telephones of our client and her relations through its many operatives and has
inundated her with numerous threatening calls and text messages,” the former
president’s wife alleged.
Mrs. Jonathan aslo accused the officials of the FIRS of
vandalizing her properties in her hotel located in Bayelsa state two months
ago.
The letter added, “On May 3, 2017, officials of the FIRS, in
a convoy of about 20 trucks and over 70 personnel, raided our client’s NGO –
Aridolf Jo Resort Wellness and Spa Limited – situated at Kpansia Expressway,
Bayelsa State, and orchestrated a massive destruction of personal properties
belonging to our client without any lawful court order or search warrant and
caused mayhem there under the guise of trying to collect unpaid taxes without
following any due process provided by law to do so.”
By Ameh Comrade Godwin
