Embattled former Petroleum
Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke,
who is being investigated by the
National Crime Agency (NCA) of
the UK for money laundering and
corruption-related offences, has
cancer and has been receiving
treatment in London, her family
has revealed.
PREMIUM TIMES had exclusively
reported that Mrs Alison-Madueke
was arrested last Friday in
London, alongside four other
people. She was later released on
bail.
On Monday, the Westminister
Magistrate’s Court onMaryleborne
Road, London, granted an
application by the NCA for the
seizure of 27,000 pounds from
her and an undisclosed amount
from her mother, Beatrice Agama.
The Economic and Financial
Crime Commission (EFCC) also
raided and sealed her Abuja
residence soon after she was
arrested on Friday.
In a statement released Thursday
on behalf of her family, Oscar
Onwudiwe, a lawyer, said Mrs.
Alison-Madueke was in London to
receive treatment for cancer that
started while she was in office
and which recently became worse.
“She completed months of
chemotherapy just last week and
is scheduled to undergo surgery
next week in London,” the
statement read.
The statement called on Nigerians
to pray for her recovery so she
can respond to the allegations of
corruption and bribery she is
facing.
“The family has been bearing this
challenge with prayers and as
much grace and fortitude as
possible; and would plead with
all reasonable Nigerians to pray
for her recovery so that she can
face this allegation and give
account of her stewardship. Yes,
she can- and very well, too.”
Her family claimed that contrary
to reports in the media, she
merely honoured to an invitation
by the NCA and that she was
neither arrested nor her passport
seized.
Media reports earlier this week claimed her
passport was seized and she had been barred
from leaving the UK until April 2016 when she
would be formally charged.
The family also denied the reports that she
was being investigated for trying to buy a
property in posh Hyde Park Street, London.
“As though to outdo the sensational
allegations in the online publication, the
mainstream media in Nigeria has been
alleging that Mrs. Diezani attempted to
purchase a property on Hyde Park Street in
London for a whooping amount which
embarrassingly ranges from 12.5 million
sterling pounds to 13 billion sterling pounds.
This claim is utterly false and laughable, for
the amounts mentioned are only in the
imagination of the reporters.
“This property is quite popular. It belongs to a
well-known eminently successful Nigerian
entrepreneur who would also find this
allegation embarrassing as the intention to sell
the property has neither been contemplated
nor disclosed to any person.”
The family denied reports that the former
minister’s mother, Mrs Agama, as well as her
stepson, Ogonna Madueke, owns houses in the
UK and the United States.
The statement said the family would deal
appropriately with those it claimed are bent
on tarnishing its name.
“The Madueke family has taken a decision on
how to appropriately deal with those who are
on a mission to soil their hard earned family
name.”


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Threats, threats and threats from every corner!

Can't really know what to make of this...let's hear what the poster below me has to say!

how does dat concern me?