It is not yet ‘uhuru’, as a new flank of troubles have opened and started pouring in against the former embattled Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Barely two weeks after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, got an interim court order to seize over $153 million, allegedly linked to her in some four Nigerian banks, the anti-graft agency last week submitted to the UK authorities, several bank and court documents, photographs, and audio visuals, linking Diezani to multi-billion naira estates in Nigeria.
It was gathered, that in the last four weeks, EFCC operatives were able to uncover multi-billion naira estates, allegedly linked to the former Super Minister, in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Yenagoa.
Investigation revealed that the photographs and visuals of the estates, were compiled for the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu, to take to London last week, where he had meetings with Detectives, at the International Corruption Unit, ICU, of the United Kingdom National Crime Agency, UK NCA, which in 2015, arrested and has since then been investigating Diezani.
Recall, that the former Oil Minister, has in recent times been holed up in London, due to her battle with cancer, and on-going corruption trial against her.
The former Minister, had consistently declared that the corruption accusations leveled against her by the current Federal Government, is malicious, and out to victimize her.
She had declared: “The political victimisation against my person, is coming at such a critical time in my life, when I am battling cancer. This poorly executed propaganda bares on its face like tribal marks, a clearly malicious attempt to victimize an innocent woman, in what appears as an exaggerated plot to validate and give credibility to the anti-corruption crusade under Nigeria’s new regime.
“People who are battling cancer, or those who have lost their loved ones to this medical condition, understand what I am going through at this time. This is what makes me ponder at the cold-heartedness of those who will go any length to defame and destroy, in the name of propaganda. What happened to our shared humanity?”
However, in a swift reaction, an official of the anti-graft agency, on Saturday said: “Some of the documents received from the EFCC, will help in the prosecution of the case against her”
Apart from mansions already placed under investigation and temporary forfeiture in Abuja, and Yenagoa, investigation revealed that more multi-billion naira estates allegedly linked to her, were also recently discovered on Omerelu street, GRA Phase 1, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where she allegedly has two other mansions, as well as others in the Ikoyi, and Lekki areas of Lagos.
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