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| Diezani Alison-Madueke. |
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has told former Minister
of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke in clear terms that she
cannot return to the country now.
The court
on Wednesday dismissed an application by Alison-Madueke, urging it to compel
the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, to bring her back
to Nigeria.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke
filed the application asking to be brought back to Nigeria to defend herself on
a criminal charge bordering on alleged laundering of N450 million and in his
ruling today, Justice Rilwan Aikawa agreed with the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) that the application is misconceived and amounts to “a
misuse of the court process”.
The court also held that having not been listed as a defendant
in the charge, there is no offence yet being made against the former minister
and she is “merely crying wolf where there is none”.
Justice
Aikawa said Mrs Alison-Madueke did not also deny the claims of the EFCC that
she is currently on bail in the UK where she is being investigated for several
financial crimes and her filing of the application was merely a ploy to escape
justice in the U.K.
The judge
ruled that his court will not be used to achieve this aim. In the final
analysis, he declared that Mrs Alison-Madueke’s application lacks merit and it
is accordingly dismissed.
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