Court orders fresh warrant for arrest of former Nigerian Petroluem Resources Minister
A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an arrest warrant against a former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Justice Bolaji Olajuwon gave the order following an application moved by by Farouk Abdullah, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC.
Abdullah had told the court that efforts by the EFCC to get the ex-Minister extradited have been futile.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke who relocated to the United Kingdom ever since the Buhari Adminstration assumed power in Nigeria, has been the subject of several corruption and money-laundering investigation by the EFCC.
The former minister has featured in a couple of charges filed in court by the Commission, which had stalled owing to her absence.
