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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Wahab Shittu, has blamed the difficult legal procedures involved in extradition for the inability of the Nigerian government to properly prosecute former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, for over 8 years.
Alison-Madueke is alleged to have looted millions of dollars belonging to Nigerian when she served as a minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
She has been away in the United Kingdom since the end of Jonathan’s administration and has been unable to appear before Nigerian courts where cases have been instituted against her by the government.
Shittu, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, said that the difficult procedures involved in extraditing someone from another country are the reason the former minister is yet to be tried adequately.
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