Justice
Valentine Ashi of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Apo,
Abuja, on December 4 ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, the Nigerian Police Force, the Department of States Security Service and
all other security agencies to apprehend and arrest a former Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke within 72 hours.
The order was made, following a motion ex parte
made before the court by counsel to the EFCC, Msuur Denga, praying for an order
of the court, to issue a warrant of arrest against Mrs Alison-Madueke, to
enable the Commission apprehend and arraign her for alleged financial crimes in
Nigeria.
The
EFCC investigated the former minister along with Jide Omokore, a former
Chairman, Atlantic Energy Drilling Company, following a petition dated October
2, 2013, from Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, bordering on money
laundering and official corruption.
EFCC said in a statement that investigations
into the petition revealed that Mrs Alison-Madueke as supervising minister of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was found to have engaged in
illicit and monumental fraudulent dealings in oil transactions, which she
entered into on behalf of the Federal Government.
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