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Court Dismisses Diezani’s Application Seeking To Be Joined In Omokore Suit by megafem1: 1:22pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High
Court Abuja, on September 20, dismissed an
application brought by a former Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-
Madueke, seeking to be joined as a
defendant in the trial of Jide Omokore, and
also struck out the eighth count in which
her name was listed.
Omokore, chairman, Atlantic Energy Brass
Development and Atlantic Energy Drilling
Concept, is facing a nine-count charge along
with Victor Briggs, a former Managing
Director, National Petroleum Development
Company; Abiye Membere, a former Group
Executive Director, Exploration and
Production at the NNPC, and David Mbanefo,
a former Manager, Planning and Commercial
at NNPC, for a $1.6 billion fraud.
Counsel for Diezani, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN,
had on September 18 filed the application,
based on the fact that her name was listed
in the eighth count, and sought for
amendment of the charge, to include her as
the seventh defendant, “in order to give her
the opportunity to defend herself”.
In the said application, Diezani also
requested that the court direct the Attorney
General of the Federation to facilitate her
appearance in court on the next adjourned
date in October 2017.
Counsel for the EFCC, M.S. Abubakar, in an
18-paragraph counter-affidavit, however,
vehemently opposed the application,
arguing that, “the applicant realized she
was being investigated, and she absconded
abroad and sometimes in March this year
operatives were in London, but her lawyers
refused to allow the operatives interview
her”.
He added that: “My lord, this present
application is a plot by the applicant to
enable her escape prosecution in London,
also to enable her come to Nigeria and
scuttle the ongoing case which has already
gotten to an advanced stage.”
After hearing arguments, Justice Dimgba,
declined to grant the application, and
instead, struck out the eighth count in
which Diezani’s name appeared.
The trial of Omokore and his co-defendants
continues on October 5. |
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