How Diezani Was Arrested In London

Former Petroleum Minister, Dieziani Alison-Madueke
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From Tom Garba, Yola

Forty-Eight hours after the arrest and release on bail of former Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, details have emerged of how she was nabbed in London.
It was gathered that the voluntary surrender to the National Crimes Agency (NCA) by a Nigerian oil baron laid the foundation for a comprehensive investigation, and arrest of Diezani.
The said oil baron, according to sources, was allegedly fronting for the ex-minister and may be holding some looted funds in trust for her.
It was learnt that following surveillance and monitoring by security agencies, the oil baron confided in a former Head of State who encouraged him to open up to the NCA on all such slush accounts.
“The oil magnate voluntarily surrendered to NCA because he knew the game was up. He was not having peace where he was staying in the UK. But the former Head of State assisted in cracking this financial crime,” a source told The Dream Daily.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke and her alleged accomplices are expected to be arraigned in a London court tomorrow.
The suspects were questioned for several hours by security agents in London.
This came four months after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Britain’s support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption.
Hours after the ex-minister’s arrest, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sealed off Alison-Madueke’s high-brow Asokoro, Abuja residence for a search.
Sources said the anti-corruption agency had a court warrant to conduct the search.


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