Diezani Allison-Madueke plans to reveal all corrupt Nigerians in details in UK court on Monday
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There is a lot of tension among Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s ministers and allies as former Petroleum minister, Dieziani Allison-Madueke heads to a UK court to face corruption trials on Monday.
Sources has revealed that the OPEC president has cut off contact with all Nigerians since her arrest and bail in LondonThe source said “Those in Jonathan’s camp were shocked by Diezani’s arrest. They have been desperately trying to get in touch with the ex-Minister since yesterday without success.“As at today (yesterday), they are worried that Diezani has cut off contact with everyone, creating fears that she might spill the beans.“The fear in Jonathan’s camp is that Diezani might be given the James Ibori treatment. They are suspecting that she might be tried and convicted in the UK.”“None of us has been able to reach out to Diezani because all her lines are off. She has also not called to share her travails with anybody.”It is the tradition of foreign courts to lighten the sentences of suspects if they cooperate with investigations.
Meanwhile More facts have emerged on how a Nigeria ex-president Obasanjo initiated the arrest of the country former Minister of Petroleum resources Diezani Alison-Madueke by the British National Crime Agency.
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.”Mrs. Alison-Madueke and her alleged accomplices are expected to be arraigned in a London on Monday.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 Buhari’s war against corruption.
A reliable source disclosed that an oil baron who was allegedly fronting for the ex-minister sought advice from the ex-president as to how to escape the anti corruption hammer of President Muhammadu Buhari’sIn his response, the ex-president frankly told the oil baron to surrender all that he had looted. However, in his explanation, the oil baron said that many prominent Nigerians might be implicated if he disclosed the source of the funds.Following intense pressure and the fear that he might be disgraced, having told the ex-president, the oil baron voluntarily surrendered himself to NCA.The source says, “You know the ex-president can’t keep secret. He will expose all that have been discussed with him. He was actually waiting for the oil baron to surrender himself and inform the NCA how many public officers were involved in the alleged shady deals.”According to the source, it was the ex-president who instigated the arrest of James Ibori. He instigated the process to extradite Buruji Kasamu, “so it was wise for the oil baron that he surrendered himself and mentioned the names of those he was fronting for” the source stated.As a matter of fact, the oil baron also mentioned four other ministers in the cabinet of the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan that were culpable in the money laundering saga.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.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.
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There you go! I am optimistic that she will not disappoint me. Let the battle begin. The legal team, I trust will demand all of the relevant documents as evidence. I have been salivating for this kind of a legal battle in Nigeria. The case of the billions of dollars that went missing, when General Buhari was running the petroleum ministry will have to be delved into, for instance.
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Imagine some fool charging President Jonathan with corruption, for the entertainment of the hoi polloi, for instance. I have recommended that an elite team of very powerful international lawyers, should be put together for the defense.
We want to see all of the relevant documents, covering the period from when the treasonable felons, including General Babangida ruled outside the law, and looted the public treasuries with reckless abandon, to now.
The object will be to show that many officials, legal and illegal, merely followed the public administrative traditions of Nigeria: a country where shadow workers could be put on the payroll for years; where heads of state could use the public treasury as their personal bank vault, sometimes without anyone or agency with the authority to question their activities, especially when the heads of state were holding guns over the heads of everyone.
If there has been no significant administrative reform, even during the years following the rule of the illegal military junta, we can conclude that these leaders of government and public bureaucracies have merely followed tradition.
It is very doubtful that any fundamental reform has taken place, because President Obasanjo went from getting into office as a poor man to becoming a multi- millionaire in eight years. The money did not come from corporate consulting, giving speeches etc. that often make American president, such as Bill Clinton very rich, after leaving office.
President Obasanjo, we might note has the same kind of resume as Buhari. He also made himself the oil minister of Nigeria. Tradition matters a lot, because they have a way of shaping how the laws on the books are actually administered.
In public administration classes, we have a term, "street level administration" to capture the essence of the difference between formal law and how the law is actually administered. For example, the speed limit is 70 miles per hour, but the police could by tradition decide as they run their beat, that anything below 80 miles an hour will be ignored as far as writing tickets and citations go.
During the age when as Robert H. Weibe (1967) notes, America "was a society of island communities" great wealth would be made from public contracting, while Machine Politics ruled. The era is very instructive. I will recommend Weibe's, The Search for Order (1967) to all Nigerians.
When tradition tells you that in order to win an election, you should pay bribes to the bosses of the machines, that is exactly what you should do, until there is some reform that disallow that, formally and informally. This will be fun!!!!!Go for it, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke.
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