TRIBUNE NG
In a new twist, former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has filed a libel suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) demanding to be paid damages of N100 billion over claims that she is corrupt.
Recall Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, last year, had ordered the final forfeiture of land belonging to the ex-Minister. She was minister of transportation (and later mines and steel development) from 2007 to 2009 under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua before serving as petroleum minister under President Goodluck Jonathan from 2010 to 2015.
The affected plot is situated at Plot 13, Block I, Oniru Chieftaincy Family Private Estate in Lagos.
Justice Babs Kuewuni had in 2018 granted an interim forfeiture of the land.
He gave the ruling following an ex-parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
New twist
But in a writ of summons filed on her behalf at a federal high court sitting in Abuja by a team of lawyers led by Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate, on May 26, 2023, Alison-Madueke demanded that the EFCC and the AGF should be compelled to apologise to her in three national newspapers “for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications” against her since 2015 when she left the country.
The defamatory reports, as she claimed in the suit marked CV/6273/2023, are:
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