The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said ex-First Lady Patience Jonathan who admitted that she owns the $5million traced to her accounts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, can be probed by the anti-graft agency. Sagay told Punch that, “The EFCC and ICPC Act have provisions under which they can ask the court to freeze the account of a person if a person’s capacity to earn is below the amount of money that the person appears to have. If you are living a lavish lifestyle and it appears you don’t have the means to have acquired the property and the wealth you have, the EFCC is free to probe you. If she is claiming the money belongs to her, she has put herself in a position where she must explain how she earned it.”
