The immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was on Friday arrested in London, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively and authoritatively report.

The former minister, who was one of the most powerful officials of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, was arrested Friday morning alongside four other people by the UK National Crime Agency.

The identities of the four other people arrested along with her could not be immediately ascertained.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt she was arrested for offences related to bribery and corruption being investigated by the UK National Crime Agency.

Two top British officials in London have confirmed the development to this newspaper. They requested not to be named because they had no permission to speak on the issue.

When contacted, the British High Commission in Nigeria confirmed that some arrests were made Friday but declined to disclose the identities of those involved.

Joseph Abuku, Press and Public Affairs Officer, said, “This morning, five people between the ages of 21 and 60 were arrested on suspicion of bribery and corruption offences. The crimes are being investigated by the National Crime Agency.

“The National Crime Agency does not confirm identity at arrest nor provide information that could be used to corroborate the identity of an arrested individual.”

It is not clear whether the former minister was arrested based on request from the Nigerian government.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on September 27 hinted that those who misappropriated billions of naira belonging to Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC, would soon be prosecuted.

Mr. Buhari said at a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China in New York that his administration was determined to fully sanitize Nigeria’s oil industry and make it totally free of corruption and shady deals.

The President did not, however, say how soon the prosecutions would start or if indeed investigations had been concluded and whether culpable individuals had been identified.

The NNPC under the immediate past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was involved in several shady deals, many of which have been cancelled by the present government.

However, Mrs. Alison-Madueke, accused of several corrupt dealings, has stayed away from Nigeria since Mr. Buhari was sworn-in as president.

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/190933-exclusive-ex-petroleum-minister-diezani-alison-madueke-arrested-in-london.html

-CramJones

CC: Ishilove Seun obinoscopy

Recall in my article published on Nairaland in August 7th, titled "Part I: Intense/fearful Revelation From My Meeting With PMB - Cramjones." I gave some details of meetings I sat with PMB along side other top government officials. Permit me to quote the first paragraph of my article detailing my meeting with PMB.

"1. There is very hard evidence of billions of $$ that was siphoned off Nigeria by the immediate past Petroleum minister. PMB in the meeting had gotten reports of the best auditing firms in the world, who will be coming to Nigeria in the coming weeks to conduct a detailed audit. One of the preliminary data available to PWC, KPMG, McKinsey & Co, and Boston Consulting shows that nothing less than $8 - $9billion was literarily fleeced away and banked in several banks accross the world. More will be revealed once McKinsey, PWC and KPMG starts its auditing process, they promised PMB that with adequate cooporation of the Accountant General of the Federation, the Min of Finance, CBN and NNPC, they will be done with more detailed evidence in less than 2 months."

The article was published on August 7th, and today makes it approximately 2 months, and there is certainly enough evidence that was submitted to the FGN to nail Allison. Nigerians would definitely see everything laid to bare, for these arrests are with very strong evidence that would make Allison spend the rest of her life in jail. It would be a lesson to many Nigerians that young and old that are planning to get into public office for the sole purpose of getting rich to the detriment of Nigeria.

If you missed reading the article here is the link: https://www.nairaland.com/2509817/part-intense-fearful-revelation-meeting


-CramJones

"the OP is a poor rag". Quote me anywhere

E don red for the woman.

Na our meat o, make Uk give make we chop am by our self, the thing no go sweet us if them do am there, oyinbo prison dey friendly.

I like this old troll .