The Acting Chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has provided
reasons the agency had been pushing to have former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Madueke returned back to Nigeria.
Magu said the commission wants
the former Minister back so she could face corruption charges.
Magu spoke at a press briefing in
Abuja on Monday.
The EFCC boss said after three
years of investigation in the United Kingdom, no charges have been filed
against her in the UK courts.
He said, however, that
investigations into her case have been concluded by the EFCC in Nigeria.
Recall that Madueke, who served
as Petroleum Minister during the last administration of Goodluck Jonathan, was
arrested in October 2015, by the UK’s National Crime Agency, NCA, in London,
along with four other people on suspicion of corruption offences.
Magu said, “I think three years
is sufficient for you to take her [Diezani] to court.
“There is no court process
against her in the UK. Nobody is prosecuting her there.”
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