The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured an arrest warrant for former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The anti-graft agency has also initiated extradition proceedings to bring her back to Nigeria to face trail.
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The information contained in a statement released by the Commission’s Acting Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale explains that crime is crime irrespective of jurisdictional differences and such will not go unpunished. The Commission says the money laundering charges for which Allison-Madueke is answerable to the EFCC covers jurisdictions in Dubai, United Kingdom, United States of America and Nigeria.
The former Minister appeared before the Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Monday over an alleged £100,000 bribe. The District Judge, Michael Snow, granted Alison-Madueke a £70,000 bail and further imposed other terms on the former Minister including an 11pm to 6am curfew, an electronic tag to be worn by her at all times and a £70,000 surety to be paid before she could leave the court building.
The EFCC says it is on course on the trial of Diezani Alison-Madueke and she will soon have her day in Nigerian courts.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
