The Nigerian presidency has confirmed
the arrest of a former Petroleum
Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in
London, over allegations of corruption
and money laundering.


“The government is aware of the arrest
and all the government investigative
agencies are working very closely with
the British law enforcement,” the Senior
Special Assistant to the President, Garba
Shehu, told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday.


“Nigerian authorities are saying for the
first time that matters are being handled
with seriousness and deep commitment.
Nobody wants to give the impression that
this government is frivolous and
unserious.


“For this reason, government is only
confirming active collaboration. Beyond
this, we are not saying more. In due
course, Nigerians will be briefed on
updates as appropriate.”

Asked about the identities of the other
four people arrested with the former
minister, Mr. Shehu declined comments,
saying, “as I said no one is willing to
provide further details at this point”.


The presidential confirmation came two
days after Mrs. Alison-Madueke was
arrested and granted bail by the UK
National Crime Agency over allegations
of corruption and money laundering.
PREMIUM TIMES had on Friday
exclusively reported the arrest of the
former minister, alongside four others.
The identities of the four other people
arrested along with Mrs. Alison-
Madueke, could not be immediately
ascertained.


Former minister accused of graft


Mrs. Alison-Madueke, one of the most
influential officials of the President
Goodluck Jonathan administration, was
first appointed into the federal cabinet in
2007.


A former board member of Shell
Petroleum Development Company of
Nigeria, she was later appointed Minister
of Transport by former President Umaru
Yar’adua.


In December 2008, she was redeployed to
the mines and steel development
ministry.

After former Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became
acting president, Mrs. Alison-Madueke was appointed
Nigeria’s first female petroleum minister in February
2010, a position Mrs. Alison-Madueke held till May 29,
2015 when Mr. Jonathan left office.


Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s tenure as petroleum minister
turned out one of Nigeria’s most controversial, amid
unending allegations of massive corruption.


Under her watch, dubious oil marketers stole trillions of
naira of oil subsidy money. She retained her position
despite an indictment by the House of Representatives
which investigated the fuel subsidy scandal.

Probes by independent audit firms, including the KPMG
and PriceWaterhousecoopers, confirmed that billions of
dollars of oil money were missing. The most notable
case of missing money involved $20billion in 2014, as
alleged by a former Central Bank governor, Lamido
Sanusi.

Several shady deals exposed by PREMIUM TIMES and
confirmed by government and independent auditors
were linked to the former minister and her cronies.
Long before her stint in the oil and gas sector, Mrs.
Alison-Madueke was investigated by the Nigerian
Senate on allegation she paid N30.9 billion to
contractors while she held office as transportation
minister.

In 2009, the Senate indicted and recommended her
prosecution for allegedly transferring N1.2 billion into a
private account of a toll company without due process.
Regardless of the indictments, Mrs. Alison-Madueke got
elected in November 2014 as the first female president
of oil producing countries alliance, OPEC.

The former minister consistently denies wrongdoing. In
June, after leaving office, she rejected all allegations of
embezzlement saying she never stole from Nigeria.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/191027-presidency-speaks-out-on-alison-maduekes-arrest-in-london.html

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Justice28:
Summary pls

aba! the guy even went far to space the contents and edited it still you can't even read it.

The FG is trying so hard to attach itself with the success of the British

n

Una no holy pass @ APC!

TonyeBarcanista:
The FG is trying so hard to attach itself with the success of the British

Please keep quiet. With all the news coming around that EFCC and U.K have been following diezani's money trail since 2013, why are you still making needless comments? Or can't you just have the humility and give the Government credit?
Do you think Jonathan would have given the go ahead to arrest diezani if he had won a second term and you will still be foolishly supporting him, why he is robbing you blindly?

Give Buhari credit for giving the go-ahead to get this thief unless you support this thief also so you are oblivious to the truth. Please put on some shame.

jcmaiah:
Una no holy pass @ APC!

Instead of wasting your strength online with talk talk, please show your proof nah. At least we have evidence of diezani's and co's thievery, but you guys just make noise. worthless opposition

Lets give the FG credit, no matter what.

Thank you for puting that murfacka in his place

He's a bloody marafaking wailer with no sense

saytan:


Please keep quiet. With all the news coming around that EFCC and U.K have been following diezani's money trail since 2013, why are you still making needless comments? Or can't you just have the humility and give the Government credit?
Do you think Jonathan would have given the go ahead to arrest diezani if he had won a second term and you will still be foolishly supporting him, why he is robbing you blindly?

Give Buhari credit for giving the go-ahead to get this thief unless you support this thief also so you are oblivious to the truth. Please put on some shame.

saytan:


Please keep quiet. With all the news coming around that EFCC and U.K have been following diezani's money trail since 2013, why are you still making needless comments? Or can't you just have the humility and give the Government credit?
Do you think Jonathan would have given the go ahead to arrest diezani if he had won a second term and you will still be foolishly supporting him, why he is robbing you blindly?

Give Buhari credit for giving the go-ahead to get this thief unless you support this thief also so you are oblivious to the truth. Please put on some shame.

If the emboldened is true then you have further admitted that Buhari played NO part but Jonathan.

Who was President in 2013?

President shud request 4his extradition! kirikiri needs her type of person to greese prison lords

saytan:


Please keep quiet. With all the news coming around that EFCC and U.K have been following diezani's money trail since 2013, why are you still making needless comments? Or can't you just have the humility and give the Government credit?
Do you think Jonathan would have given the go ahead to arrest diezani if he had won a second term and you will still be foolishly supporting him, why he is robbing you blindly?

Give Buhari credit for giving the go-ahead to get this thief unless you support this thief also so you are oblivious to the truth. Please put on some shame.

you really can't blame him. he earns his pay per post. so he has to post something reasonable or not.

When will our public officers learn to serve and stop stealing.
God please help my race.

TonyeBarcanista:

If the emboldened is true then you have further admitted that Buhari played NO part but Jonathan.

Who was President in 2013?

Then you don't even understand the question you are asking.

Who is the President now that effected the arrest of Diezani? Or you think Buhari was not aware of the U.K's move?
Please don't let everyone laugh you silly here if you say the Almighty FG did not know about U.K's move against Diezani. That will give you away.

Wind don blow...

..

TonyeBarcanista:

If the emboldened is true then you have further admitted that Buhari played NO part but Jonathan.

Who was President in 2013?

Let me tackle your FOLLY from another reasoning

Ok Jonathan clandestinely involved the EFCC to track Diezani but didnt effect her arrest then.
So the FG was tracking Diezani

Now Buhari is the head of the new FG and EFCC and U.K crime squad now arrested the thief
So you mean jonathan was still the one that issued the "kill" order, or the EFCC acted without getting a mandate from the Executive?


Going by your reasoning, are you this dull?

Her own go pass Abacha loot.

Those that castigated SLS for blowing the whistle about the inability of NNPC to account for abt $20b should hide their heads in shame.

alaoeri:
Those that castigated SLS for blowing the whistle about the inability of NNPC to account for abt $20b should hide their heads in shame.

They are the same worthless opposition we have here all wailing together. They have no shame and no conscience.

saytan:


Then you don't even understand the question you are asking.

Who is the President now that effected the arrest of Diezani? Or you think Buhari was not aware of the U.K's move?
Please don't let everyone laugh you silly here if you say the Almighty FG did not know about U.K's move against Diezani. That will give you away.

Is Buhari the president of the United Kingdom? Does he have jurisdiction over UK's NCA? Which arrest did he effect? Has he indicted her at any time or has he invited her? Did the EFCC declare her wanted or did they request her extradition? Oga go siddon!

The UK never sought and never had nor did they ever need the permission of ANY nigerian government to arrest or prosecute any offender on their soil. Buhari haÐ no clue... He read it on Premium Times like us!

This opolo eye former minster of petroleum has been stealing for long with his cronies in the last clueless government. However, after she is done serving in London she should be repatriated to Nigeria to come and taste KIRI KIRI maximum prison. !! I know wailers will not be happy to hear this news !!

saytan:


Instead of wasting your strength online with talk talk, please show your proof nah. At least we have evidence of diezani's and co's thievery, but you guys just make noise. worthless opposition

Please BH still dey bomb pass 2months... Chibok girls we don't hear of again. All Na wash. Wetin you use your own energy for?

TonyeBarcanista:

Is Buhari the president of the United Kingdom? Does he have jurisdiction over UK's NCA? Which arrest did he effect? Has he indicted her at any time or has he invited her? Did the EFCC declare her wanted or did they request her extradition? Oga go siddon!

The UK never sought and never had nor did they ever need the permission of ANY nigerian government to arrest or prosecute any offender on their soil. Buhari haÐ no clue... He read it on Premium Times like us!

The fact is that you don't read like many of your fellow wailers here. So i'll do my best to copy and paste like you always do. Please take your time and connect the dots. This Punch and not Premium times, so happy reading.

Please take closer look at the emphasis and let your brain work this time. Don't be quick to comment rubbish.

The British National Crime Agency has dispatched a team of detectives to Nigeria who are now working with the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH revealed that the team of investigators from the UK Police was drawn from the Seizures Organised Crimes Agency.

A top operative of the EFCC, who spoke to one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity on Saturday, said the SOCA team had been involved in a discreet investigation of Alison-Madueke for two months before they finally moved against her.

The former petroleum minister left Nigeria shortly before the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari in May this year.

It was further gathered that the team from SOCA had been working alongside a team of EFCC operatives from the Subsidy Unit led by a Chief Superintendent of Police.

[size=18pt]The EFCC team was constituted in August 2015 by the Chairman of the anti-corruption agency, Ibrahim Lamorde[/size], to investigate the activities of Alison-Madueke and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

The SU team was mandated to probe all the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, which were under the supervision of the former minister.

SUNDAY PUNCH gathered on Saturday that the intensified investigation into the activities of the former minister was being supervised by Lamorde and the Director of Operations of the EFCC, Mr. Olusola Adegbite.

Investigations further showed that the operatives from the subsidy unit of the EFCC carried out the operation at Alison-Madueke’s Asokoro residence in Abuja, following her arrest on Friday.

An operative of the commission, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the EFCC’s subsidy team ransacked the residence of the former minister for hours.

The operatives were said to have recovered several files from the ex-minister’s residence and they were carted away for further analysis by the combined team of investigators from the EFCC and the SOCA.

It was gathered that the operatives did not find anybody within the residence to guide them, so they had to get some security personnel who had worked with the former minister to gain access into the building through one of the windows.

It was further stated that the operatives later got the keys and searched all the rooms in the house for hours before they carted away the files.

The source said, “When our operatives got there, there was nobody in the building. What they did was to get the security men who were working with her to guide them through the building.

“They entered the building through one of the windows and later found the keys with which they accessed all the rooms. They found some documents in some files and they carted them away.”

Ex-minister’s probe began in 2013 — Britain

Similarly, the NCA has revealed that contrary to speculations that the corruption investigation leading to the arrest of Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister started in 2013.

The Nigerian media, both the traditional and social media platforms, were awash with reports that it was [size=18pt]President Buhari’s recent meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, and other world leaders that led to the investigation and arrest of Alison-Madueke.
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The ex-minister and current President of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries was arrested on Friday by the NCA’s recently formed International Corruption Unit, along with four other persons.

She was arrested in London as part of an investigation into suspected bribery and money laundering offences.

Alison-Madueke was, however, granted bail but her passport was withheld by the British authorities, pending further investigations, both in the UK and other countries.

In an update on its website, the NCA noted that the investigation started about two years ago.

“The investigation commenced in 2013 under the Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and transferred to the NCA earlier this year (2015). The International Corruption Unit investigates bribery of foreign public officials by individuals or companies from the UK and money laundering by corrupt foreign officials and their associates,” it stated.

The UK crime agency added that the ICU would also trace and recover the proceeds of Alison-Madueke’s alleged corruption and support Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies with international anti-corruption investigations.

http://www.punchng.com/news/uk-investigators-in-nigeria-join-efcc-to-probe-diezani-%E2%80%A2ex-ministers-probe-began-in-2013-britain/

Since you like getting your facts from newspapers like you have rightly pointed out, wouldn't it be foolish of you now to refute these facts and term them fake? Since you said Buhari just read it from premium times and all those trips to the U.K was a wasted venture? Which kind of brain do you have? Do you think A constitutionally executive government is like your village tribal clan setting? That when Presidents do travel out to other countries, all they do is meet and greet? Boy, you still have a long way to go in terms of understanding politics, government and how agencies operate clandestinely

Okpolor eye

I hope TONYBARCANISTA and CHUKUFRAUD44 are reading this

TonyeBarcanista:

If the emboldened is true then you have further admitted that Buhari played NO part but Jonathan.

Who was President in 2013?

your problem is just that u are blind and u live in denial. Dts all i will say. Jona dt told us stealin isnt corruption? Dt set up 100s of committee til date ntm 4m dem

Diezani ,the best petroleum minister Nigeria ever had. It is only Nigeria APC government that can witchunting and humiliate a now president of opec this manner. She has not stolen money from Nigeria. yet someone born a vendetta disturbing a gentle woman. APC government is not fighting corruption, the government is corrupt in itself.

LOL, it has already started:

Prison Girls, Nollywood Movie, Starring Diezani Madueke;
Titled: Goats Wey Chop Yam Go Waka to Kirikiri.