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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has said the anti-graft agency will meet ex-petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke in court whenever she is ready to face the allegations against her.
The statement is coming from EFCC following an explosive statement where she disclosed that the agency is making “false and unsubstantiated claims” against her.
A senior EFCC official in response to this said: “We hope to meet her in court if she is ready and can therefore not join issues with her at this point.
If the former minister has no case to answer, she should come forward and meet us in court instead of raising false alarm to whip up sentiment and run away from the issues.”
Recall that the EFCC had recently obtained temporary order forfeiting the $153 million allegedly stashed away by the former minister in various accounts, to the federal government.
But the former minister, in a rebuttal made available TheNewsGuru yesterday denied the ownership of the said money and challenged the EFCC to publish the details of the accounts, their owners and in which NNPC’s accounts the money was taken and when.
She said she was saddened by what she called “media trial” by the EFCC and wondered what the commission was out to achieve by making “false and unsubstantiated claims” against her.