The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the final
forfeiture of a sum of N7,646,700,000 loot by a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the FG.
On August 9, 2017, vacation judge Justice Chuka Obiozor
granted an order temporarily forfeiting the money to the FG. Justice Obiozor’s
order followed an ex parte application argued before him by EFCC.
He adjourned till today for the bank and any other interested
party to appear before him to show cause why the funds should not be
permanently forfeited to the FG.
The EFCC told the judge that the N7.6 billion was part of a
sum of $153,310,000, which Mrs. Alison-Madueke allegedly siphoned from the coffers
of NNPC sometime in 2014.
The anti-graft agency said she stashed the money in three
banks, adding that the FG had since February last year, through an order by
Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos recovered part of the
money from the other banks.
The anti-graft agency recalled that the FG had recovered
N23.4 billion, $5 million and another N9.08 billion of the $153.3m million. It
urged the court to order Sterling Bank to deliver up to the FG the N7.6 billion
still in its custody.
Wow!
FG is taking over all accounts attached to her name.
They probably have proof that Diezani didn't have a dime before she became minister.
That must be it.
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