Diezani is seeking the recovery of her assets which EFCC has seized through court orders back in Nigeria.
Diezani, in her suit, sought an order extending the time within which to seek leave to apply to the court for an order to set aside the EFCC’s public notice issued to conduct public sale on her property.
But in the motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/21/2023 dated and filed in court on 6 January by her lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , the ex-minister sought five orders from the court.saying in May that $153 million and over 80 propertiesDiezani is believed to have escaped to the United Kingdom and remained there after her exit from public office as the petroleum minister an office she held between 2010 and 2015 under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
She further argued that the courts were misled into making several of the final forfeiture orders against her assets through suppression or non-disclosure of material facts. “The applicant was never served with the processes of court in all the proceedings that led to the order of final forfeiture,” she said, among other grounds given.But the EFCC, in a counter affidavit deposed to by Rufai Zaki, a detective with the commission, urged the court to dismiss Diezani’s application.
He said contrary to her deposition in the affidavit in support, most of the cases which led to the final forfeiture of the contested property “were action in rem, same were heard at various times and determined by this honourable court.”
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