EFCC Takes Over Arrested Diezani Madueke Abuja House!

Agents of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission – EFCC- have taken over the Abuja house of arrested ex petrol minister, Diezani madueke.

The move is believed to be part of efforts to secure evidence that would provide air tight case of corruption against the once upon a time very powerful minister.

Diezani believed to be holed up in Landmark Hotel london was arrested by British police earlier today.

Here is a more detailed report

Reports filtering in on Friday has it that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have swopped on the Abuja house of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Alison-Madueke.

Alison-Madueke, an earlier report by Premium Times had it, was arrested on Friday morning in London, United Kingdom on allegations of corruption.
She was arrested by the UK National Crimes Agency, Premium Times said it reliably learnt.

Information available to The Eagle Online on Friday evening had it that operatives of the EFCC had stormed Alison-Madueke’s house in Asokoro area of Abuja.

They were said to be looking for additional information with which she would be prosecuted.

If her trial takes place in and she is eventually jailed in the UK, she will become the second prominent Nigerian to be tried and convicted in the country on corruption charges.

The first was a former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, who is still serving his jail term in a UK prison.

Alison-Madueke served in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

She was accused of sleaze of huge proportions, especially as regards the running of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

President Muhammadu Buhari had at the United Nations General Assembly last week said the trial of those who looted the NNPC would soon begin

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