Immediate past Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke,
has offered to refund the sum of $
250 million dollars to the Nigerian
government in return for immunity
from further investigation and
possible prosecution,
SaharaReporters has learned.
However, her overture has reportedly
received a cold response from
President Muhammadu Buhari.


A source in Aso Rock and a ranking
member of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) told our
correspondent that the former
minister has been reaching out to
influential government and ruling
party officials, in and outside Abuja,
to prevail on President Buhari to
accept her offer and let bygones be
bygone. According to our sources,
Mrs. Alison-Madueke had enlisted
the support of several figures close
to Mr. Buhari, including Governor
Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, to
intercede with the incumbent
president.


Mrs. Alison-Madueke was one of the
closest ministers to former President
Goodluck Jonathan, and is reputed to
have anchored and facilitated
numerous money-laundering
scandals and deals that
characterized the era of the just-
ended Jonathan administration. The
former Petroleum Minister oversaw
several oil swap deals, the
disposition of oil wells handed over
by Shell Petroleum to the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), and the direct looting of
funds through the NNPC. Former
Central Bank Governor, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, was forced out of
office after he revealed that the NNPC
had failed to remit more than $20
billion in oil revenues with the CBN.


The former Petroleum Minister is the
latest of several officials who served
under Mr. Jonathan’s government
that are currently negotiating “soft
landing deals” with the Buhari
administration. The incumbent
president, who was sworn in on May
29, 2015, has vowed to probe
various questionable financial actions
taken by his successor or officials of
his government. Mr. Buhari is
reportedly determined to recover
billions of dollars in stolen funds.


One source said Mrs. Alison-
Madueke’s latest offer to refund at
least $250 million to the government
came after she learned that President
Buhari’s scheduled meeting with US
Attorney General, Loretta Lynch,
would include a discussion of ways
that the US government could
facilitate the investigation, arrest and
prosecution of some officials of the
Jonathan administration implicated in
the theft of billions of dollars and a
variety of frauds that resulted in the
loss of significant sums of public
funds in Nigeria.


SaharaReporters exclusively reported
earlier in the week that the former
Minister of Finance and the
Coordinating Minister of the
Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has
been cooperating with the Buhari
administration’s ongoing, if quiet,
probe of a series of questionable
financial transactions by the
Jonathan administration.
Our sources revealed that Mrs.
Okonjo-Iweala had given the Buhari
administration documents that
expose a number of shady financial
deals executed by the Jonathan
administration.


Two days ago, we reported that
former Secretary General of the
Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku, had
appealed to Mr. Buhari to halt the
ongoing probe of former President
Jonathan’s administration. Even
though Mr. Anyaoku has denied that
he urged Mr. Buhari to stop the
investigation of his predecessor’s
financial dealings, our sources
insisted that the ex-Commonwealth
chief executive brought up the
matter.


Our sources disclosed that Mr.
Buhari was unimpressed by Mrs.
Alison-Madueke’s offer. “Mr.
President considers the $250 million
as ridiculous considering the amount
of money Mrs. Diezani Alison-
Madueke is suspected to have
diverted into her pocket and those of
others,” said one source.


According to our sources, Mr. Buhari
is intent on ordering a full audit of
deals and transactions done by the
former Petroleum Minister and her
cohorts in the various agencies that
reported to her.


In addition, the new president is
reportedly focused on looking further
at the extensive embezzlement of
security funds by appointees of the
former president. Mr. Buhari has
approved an investigation of how
more than $3 billion in Nigeria’s
defense budget was spent. Security
agents who searched the homes of
former National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki, reportedly carted
away some revealing documents.


Earlier today, the Department of State
Security (DSS) arrested and detained
Gordon Obuah, a former Chief
Security Officer to President Goodluck
Jonathan. Mr. Obuah is reportedly
being questioned over his alleged
mastermind of a multi-million dollar
oil bunkering deal during the former
administration.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/18/buhari-turns-down-former-petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-offer-refund-250-million

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Emeskhalifa:
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