Justice Rilwan Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed an application from the former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison- Madueke urging it to compel the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to bring her back into the country.
Diezani had sought the help of the court with the application asking to be brought back to Nigeria to defend a criminal charge bordering on alleged laundering of N450 million.
The judge ruled that the application is misconceived and amounts to “a misuse of the court process”.
The court also held that having not been listed as a defendant in the charge, there is no offence yet being made against the Former Minister and she is “merely crying wolf where there is none”.
According to Justice Aikawa, Mrs Alison-Madueke did not also deny the claims of the EFCC that she is currently on bail in the UK where she is being investigated for several financial crimes and her filing of the application was merely a ploy to escape justice in the U.K.
The judge ruled that his court will not be used to achieve this aim. In the final analysis, he declared that Mrs Alison-Madueke’s application lacks merit and it is accordingly dismissed.
