You Must Produce Alison-Madueke In The Next 72 Hours, Court Tells EFCC And DSS

Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), police, Department of State Services (DSS) and all other security agencies to arrest former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, within 72 hours.

FLASH !!!: Court gives EFCC, DSS, police 72 hours to produce Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Justice Valentine Ashi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, on December 4, 2018, gave the order.

— The Godfather JP (@AyoOyalowo) December 4, 2018

Acting Spokesman to the EFCC, Tony Orilade, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday in Abuja, said the order was made following a motion ex-parte filed by counsel to the EFCC, Msuur Denga, praying for a warrant of arrest against Alison-Madueke to enable the commission apprehend and arraign her for alleged financial crimes in Nigeria.

The judge, granting the ex-parte motion, said: “The Inspector-General of Police, Chairman of the EFCC, Attorney-General of the Federation and the Department of State Services are hereby ordered in the name of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, to apprehend and arrest the first defendant and produce her before this court for further directives within 72 hours.”

Meanwhile, the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has said that the anti-graft agency is working with other law enforcement agencies to extradite Alison-Madueke.

He said he had met and appealed to Nigerians in Diaspora to assist in mounting pressure on the investigative agencies to extradite her and repatriate whatever loot recovered from her.

The anti-graft boss, in an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos yesterday, said the case had got INTERPOL’s attention and had become common topic of discussion among other law enforcement agencies.

When Orji Uzor Kalu slipped through there fingers out of Naija in broad day light, and we were even told that EFCC had confiscated his international passport?
The Courts can give them 72yrs if they like, these sleeping anti graft agencies will be able to produce an Amoeba

— AISHBIL (@ABBABILYAMINU) December 4, 2018

While reiterating the neutrality of the EFCC, he, however, pointed out that the concern of the agency is with those who seek to use the political space for money laundering.

He said the EFCC would enforce the provisions of the anti-money laundering law to the letter, no matter whose ox is gored.According to him, the introduction of special courts to try persons for corruption cases has been a blessing to anti-graft agencies.

“No more unnecessary delay in trial and dispensation of justice,” he noted.

They shd leave her here to be prosecuted..the failing buhari govt want to bungle this deziani case again like others..a govt with a prof of law that failed woefully to jail saraki now want to jail deziani..olodo govt..abeg tell them to leave her in UK where she'll get justice

— Kéhìndé (@jlloyd1212) December 4, 2018