Nigeria's Former Petroleum Minister Dizani Alison Maduekwe
Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke
has no reputation to protect, as the
married woman has a notorious reputation
and a penchant for adulterous affairs, a
lawsuit claims.
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igeria’s former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke
has no reputation to protect, as the
married woman has a notorious reputation and a
penchant for adulterous affairs, a lawsuit claims.
Nigeria's former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke
The suit, filed at the High Court of the Federal
Capital Territory in Abuja by Moremi Publishing
House Limited, publishers of Osun Defender,
asserts that Alison-Madueke’s illicit affairs
outside her marriage have been undertaken using
the nation’s wealth upon which she sat as
Minister of Petroleum.
The suit is a response toa libel suit filed by
Alison-Madueke filed in june 2015
The defendants insist in their statement of
defence that there is a treasure trove of
documentation in the nation’s press as well as in
various public investigations which include the
reports of the audit firms KPMG and
PriceWaterHouse Coopers on the Nigeria National
Petroleum (NNPC), as well as that of the House
of Representatives on the activities of Alison-
Madueke.
Maintaining that they are “responsible corporate
citizens of Nigeria with high ethical and
professional standing” who would libel no one,
the plaintiff inclusive, the defendants declared
that they only publish “credible and verifiable”
stories.
They cited a wide variety of published stories in
different media outside of themselves which
reflect a wide variety of corruption and collusion
on the part of Alison-Madueke during her tenure
as Minister.
Among others, the defendants asserted that
under the Plaintiff’s watch as Minister for
Petroleum Resources, 445,000 barrels of crude
oil were stolen on a daily basis for about four
years with no effort by Alison-Madueke to
identify, initiate arrest or prosecute the criminals
who were responsible for that huge theft and
depletion of national wealth.
“The allegation of daily theft of crude oil was
asserted by former President Goodluck Jonathan,
Vice President Namadi Sambo and Minister for
Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on several
occasions and which facts were never
contradicted nor debunked by the Plaintiff and
which led to the award of bogus contracts of
pipeline monitoring and protection to rag-tag
security formations of ex-militants and ethnic
militias by the government under which the
Plaintiff served as Minister,” they said.
They also recalled the House of Representatives’
investigation of Alison-Madueke for squandering
about N10 billion of tax payers’ money on
charter and maintenance of a Challenger 850
aircraft for unofficial use as was widely reported
in the mass media.
“The Defendants aver that, at the trial of this
suit, they shall rely on opinions of average
Nigerians about the Plaintiff to buttress the fact
that the Plaintiff has no reputation to protect
save in the coterie of her corrupt associates,”
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