“Why Is UK Government Trying To Keep Diezani Away From Arrest?” – EFCC Boss Magu Furiously Asks

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, is furious with the United Kingdom and other international partners for shielding Diezani Alison-Madueke from prosecution back home.

Alison-Madueke, 59, served as Minister of Petroleum Resources from 2010 to 2015 under former President Goodluck Jonathan. The anti-graft agency accuses her of bribery, fraud, misuse of public funds and money-laundering during her time in office.

The EFCC also says it has so far traced N47.2 billion and $487.5 million in cash and properties to the former minister.

“Unlike Liberia however, the Nigerian nation is not at war. But it seems Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, until recently, Minister of Petroleum Resources, going by the sheer amount of her acquisition of gold and diamonds, may have been fighting a spirited war against millions of compatriots who are heavily and unevenly yoked by crass poverty.

“To boot, the former minister is accused of having stolen – in broad daylight – the money that funded her acquisitive binge.

A search of one of Alison-Madueke’s palatial residences in Abuja by the EFCC, turned up boxes of gold, silver and diamond jewelry, worth several million pounds sterling,”

The EFCC wrote in a previous statement.

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