REVEALED: A breakdown of some of the corruption allegations against Diezani Alison Madueke



Mrs Diezani Alison Madueke was first appointed into the federal cabinet in 2007.

She was a former director at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, she was appointed Minister of Transport by late President Umaru Yar’adua. In December 2008, she was redeployed to the Mines and Steel Development ministry.

After former Vice President Goodluck Jonathan became acting president, Alison-Madueke was appointed Nigeria’s first female petroleum minister in February 2010, a position she held till May 29, 2015 when Mr. Jonathan left office. Alison-Madueke’s tenure as petroleum minister turned out one of Nigeria’s most controversial, amid unending allegations of corruption.



Under her watch, dubious oil marketers stole trillions of naira of oil subsidy money. She retained her position after the House of Representatives investigated the scandal and indicted the minister. Probes by independent audit firms, including the KPMG and Pricewaterahousecoopers, confirmed billions of dollars of oil money were missing, the most notable being $20 billion in 2014.

Long before her stint in the oil and gas sector, Alison-Madueke was investigated by the Nigerian Senate on allegation she paid N30.9 billion to contractors while she held office as transport minister.

In 2009, the Senate also indicted Mrs. Alison-Madueke and recommended her for prosecution for allegedly transferring N1.2 billion into a private account of a toll company without due process. The former minister consistently denied any wrongdoing.

In June, after leaving office, she rejected all allegations of embezzlement, saying she never stole from Nigeria.

In March 2014, the House of Representatives mandated its Committee on Public Accounts to investigate the alleged squandering of N10 billion over a two-year period on the arbitrary charter and maintenance of a Challenger 850 aircraft for unofficial use by Alison-Madueke.

Such act was said to contravene the “Fiscal Responsibility Act and all other laws on fiscal discipline” Acting on what it termed reliable evidence, the House said it learnt that Alison-Madueke had allegedly sunk at least N3.120 billion into the maintenance of a private jet dedicated to the service of herself and her family.

A breakdown of the money, showed that the sum of 500,000 Euros (N130 million) was spent every month on the maintenance of the airplane, which amounted to N3.120 billion for the two years in question.
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  1. Why should that beautiful and intelligent woman put herself in this kind of situation. But what a man can do, I see that a woman can do it better. Very crafty, I think.

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  2. Na wa o . We no longer have the fear of Almighty God in our mind any longer . H E A R T L E S S N E S S .

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  3. Kai the Babe too do abeg...haba all this money and no positive impact on her life...its a shame

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  4. A beg nothing they happen...what of IBB, OBJ, Abacha , Tinumbu, shagari , Atiku , El Ruffai etc etc

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  5. all this intending prisoners must be sent to siberia to serve their sentence please
    in hash cold conditions, kirikiri is too good for them
    N16

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  6. You fool, idiotic anonymous because IBB and co stole so the stealing should continue. Monkey like you, you want the Niger Deltans to continue to suffer. It is your family that will suffer. If in 2 years of the present government shows no sign of development in the Niger Delta, we will certainly vote them out by 2019. Trust me.

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  7. Bring Back Our Money!
    Chikena!

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  8. It's time Nigerians begin to ask PDP exactly what they truly know about the spate of suicide bombings in Nigeria.

    First, PDP tried pinning reason for Boko Haram and Suicide Bombings on PMB when they saw him as the only treat to their rule in the upcoming last elections.

    Then they tried using Boko Harm and Suicide Bombings as a tool of Religious Sentiment against PMB as a Muslim.

    PDP must come clean about who is actually sponsoring all these hideous crimes against Nigeria.

    Now that one of their key sources of financial misappropriations and financial reckless is under arrest and may have already started singing like Canary, we have a sudden hike in Bombings to force Nigerians to be distracted and diverted.

    I leave the rest to all sincere and patriotic Nigerians to judge.

    May the Lord continue to frustrate and reduce to oblivion all the known and secret enemies of Nigeria in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.

    May the Lord erase all the known and secret enemies of Nigeria like human fart in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.

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  9. Sometimes I wonder if such people have no poor people in their villages or living around them. Indeed people have sold their conciences. What a shame!!!!!!

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  10. we said women should be encouraged....what has happened to the few ines that were encouraged.......They are basically thieves and am sure she must have had very terrible matrimonial home and her teenage yrs must have been terrible. those who can tell wont say anything now....u will all perish with power of devil as God is not responding fast.......SKINN

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