EFCC arrest Jonathan Patience`s sister over N3 billion Naira

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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Esther Oba, the sister of former First Lady Patience Jonathan, for N 3 billion in bank accounts, Punch writes.

Both were arrested on Monday at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja after arriving from Dubai with her family.

The source of the EFCC who talked with Punch stated that the commission sought Oba a year after its name was identified as the only signer of the AM-PM Global Network bank account, a fraud investigation company. Pretentious.

The bank account would have received the amount of N317 million Naira, described as the "Illegal Enrichment Product" of former First Lady Patience Jonathan, who was named a permanent secretary in the state of Bayel.

The Commission allegedly put on a tracking list and asked the security agencies to warn them every time they were found. The source said:

We had been looking for her for over a year because her name featured as the sole signatory to the account of one AM-PM Global Network, a firm under investigation for alleged fraud.
When we could not get her, we alerted all security agencies and told them to put her on a watchlist and to inform us if she showed up at any port of entry. On Monday, we received word from the Nigeria Immigration Service that she came in with her husband and three children.We raced down to the airport and picked her up. She is still in our custody.

Oba has however, in a statement made at the EFCC, denied any culpability, saying the firm was owned by her mother who has passed.

She added that her brother, Mohammed Tamuno Tonye, who has also passed, was the only one with the knowledge of the source of the funds.

The EFCC source has however described the claims as “hard to believe.” The source said:

She said her mother, Mama Charity Oba, was the original owner of the firm. However, after her mother died a Bank Verification Number was needed, two directors of the firm, Gift and Mohammed Tamuno Tonye, wrote Stanbic IBTC saying Esther Oba should be the sole signatory.
She took charge of the account on February 3, 2016 and between March and May of the same year, there was an inflow of N317m into the account. She said only her brother, Mohammed Tamuno Tonye, knew the source of the funds and he died a few months ago.

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