Nigeria: Judge Gives EFCC Ultimatum to Extradite Diezani From UK

13 November 2019

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) until March 2020 to have a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke extradited to Nigeria.

The commission had in November 2018 filed 13 counts charge of money laundering against the ex-minister accusing her of unlawfully taking into her possession the sums of $39.7million and N3.32billion with which she allegedly bought choice properties in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt in Rivers State, while she was in office.

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