ICYMI: EFCC Seeks Diezani’s Extradition, Court Adjourns Arraignment Till May.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has written the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, in respect to the extradition of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, from the United Kingdom.
The anti-graft agency said it was supposed to arraign Mrs Diezani and a former Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Company, Jide Omokore, before the court on February 25 for offences bordering on conspiracy and illegal act of accepting and giving gratifications. At the last sitting on December 4, 2018, the court had ordered the EFCC and other security agencies, to bring the former minister to court 72 hours after she returned to the country.
He said, “The Commission has written the AGF, with a view for the extradition process so as to enable her face her trial, as she is still in the United Kingdom.”It read in part: “The Commission recently filed charges against Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke in both the Federal High Court , and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory .
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