AP Good luck Jonathan and the War against Corruption

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Is Jonathan Goodluck on a strong moral pedestal to prosecute the war against corruption?

In his first address to the Nation as acting President, Goodluck Jonathan among others things said: “One of the cardinal commitments of this administration is our commitment to Good Governance, Accountability and Transparency. We shall continue to pursue these policy objectives with all the seriousness they deserve. In particular, the war against corruption will be prosecuted more robustly. We will therefore strengthen the capacity of the anti-corruption agencies and give them a free hand to prosecute the anti corruption war

In September 2006, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) named Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of Goodluck Jonathan, then Bayelsa State Governor, as an accomplice in the N104million- money laundering case involving Mrs. Nancy Ebere Nwosu.

The EFCC in suit number FHC/ABJ/M/340/ 06 filed on August 21, 2007 at the Federal High Court, Abuja alleged that the governor’s wife was the one that instructed her agent to launder the huge sum in a First Bank of Nigeria account number 3292010060711 held in the name of Nansolyvan Public Relations Limited.

So Can this man really prosecute a war against corruption?

This is what is inside that file:
"Our investigations revealed that Mrs. Patience Jonathan, wife of the Governor of Bayelsa State, was the person who instructed one Hanner Offor to launder the said sum of N104, 000, 000 into the account of Nansolyvan Public Relations Limited with First Bank of Nigeria Plc (FBN), Niger House, Marina, Lagos," Ofem Uket, a legal officer with the EFCC averred in an affidavit in support of originating summons of the suit.

"Already, the court presided over by Justice A.I. Chikere has ordered the freezing of the said account and another, Access Bank Plc no. 001001006221 held in the name of Finviclaud & Co. Limited, which the EFCC alleged was also involved in the laundering of the money".

According to the EFCC affidavit, "Access Bank blew the lead on the scam when it submitted a Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) to the Financial Intelligence Unit (F.I.U.) of the commission, indicating that N70million had been laundered into an account held by Finviclaud & Co. against the usual flow of funds into the said account.

The commission deposed that its investigation showed that the N70million was deposited in the account with a personal current account FBN cheque no. 3292010060711 drawn on Nansolyvan Public Relations Limited at the Niger House Marina branch of the bank.

It claimed that the N104million found in the frozen FBN account was lodged by one Hanner Offor in two tranches of N70million and N34million on the May 3 and 4, 2006, averring that it was the governor's wife that instructed that the money be laundered into the account. The EFCC further deposed that the two accounts belonged to Nwosu who had made statements to that effect, and consequently requested that the accounts be frozen in accordance with Section 34(1) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act No. 1 of 2004.
This is what , in my view , prevented him from assuming the Presidency sooner , not the constitution . There's a damaging evidence that , under the instruction of Turai , EFCC has kept a file of Jonathan's wife laundering case open . The News is no secrete among Nigeria's political elite and the Nigerian PRESS . What's NEWS is how the dent will affect his Presidency ? His supporters say don't worry - The case may now go to REST permanently ....with a change in the Chairmanship of the anti-corruption Agency .....

But Nigerians would want to know what's inside that file . Don't you ?