Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke's convoy crushes journalist to death in Abuja

Embattled Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke has again been caught in the midst of public rage with her convoy allegedly crushing a journalist with Abuja based Pilot Newspaper, James Momoh in Mabushi area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja.

The minister has been in the middle of raging corruption allegations in the petroleum sector she heads especially in the management of fuel subsidy funds where more than N2 trillion of public funds have been callously looted by officials and oil marketers in just one year.

James Momoh was Allegedly knocked down by the over-speeding convoy of  Mrs Alison-Madueke late on Wednesday night along the Mabushi expressway .After knocking him down, the minister's aides were said to have  taken their victim to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC staff clinic in Abuja where he was later certified dead and his body subsequently deposited at a government hospital mortuary in Maitama.

Desperate efforts were being made by the minister and her aides to ensure that the incident is not reported in the media. the twist is that an NNPC shuttle bus was the one involved in the fatal incident that killed the hapless journalist.