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EFCC: Court fixes date for Patience Jonathan’s N2bn suit

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has adjourned till April 24, 2017, the hearing of the suit brought before it by the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on the enforcement of her fundamental human rights.

Patience had gone to court to seek a declaration that the freezing of her bank accounts and those of her relatives by the EFCC was a violation of her fundamental human rights to own property and to fair hearing.

She also claimed that the breaking into, and ransacking of her family property by officers of the commission while executing a search warrant, was a violation of her fundamental human rights to privacy and family life.

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