The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has sued PREMIUM TIMES and 10 other individuals and organizations to restrain them from further reporting on the controversial missing $20billion oil money involving the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

In an application before Justice AFA Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja, Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s lawyer, Godwin Obla, from Obla & Co., sought and obtained an interim injunction restraining PREMIUM TIMES and 10 others from “publishing or causing to be published any further defamatory statements” stating or suggesting that the minister “stole, misappropriate or colluded in the stealing of $20billion crude oil revenue”.

In the application dated March 13, 2015, Mr. Obla warned the persons and organisations to desist from “further publishing any disparaging defamatory or otherwise salacious materia (sic) as it relates to or affects our client.”

Those listed as defendants in the case are the All Progressives Congress, APC, Vanguard Media Limited and its editor, Mideno Bayagbon; Leadership Newspapers Group Limited and its editor Ekele Peter Agbo; Premium Times Services Limited and its editor in chief, Dapo Olorunyomi, and Vintage Press Limited and its editor, Lekan Otufodunrin.

Also joined in the application were the National Broadcasting Corporation and the Nigerian Press Council.
The Court directed the two government regulators to ensure Mrs. Alison-Madueke is not linked in any report regarding the alleged missing $20 billion either on broadcast media, internet, print or radio.

The court specifically ordered the media houses to “desist from publishing any materials or running any programmme alluding to the complicity or collusion” the minister in respect of “$20billion, $49billion or any other figure, howsoever computed or arrived at, which are purportedly/allegedly missing or ‘unaccounted’ for”.

“You are hereby advised to immediately ensure total compliance with the Order of the Hon. Justice Ademola and to further cease and desist forthwith from publishing any material, howsoever titled or presented and irrespective of its form and content, which alludes to any amorous, immoral, salacious and defamatory matters connected to or related with our client, including anything to do with any allegation(s) or insinuation that our client colluded, was involved with or is complicit in the matter of a purportedly/allegedly missing $20billion, $49billion or any other amount whatsoever, until the determination of the substantive suit,” it stated.

Warning that compliance to the court order was not discretionary, but mandatory, Mr. Obla said that any attempt to do otherwise would be tantamount to flouting a subsisting order of a competent court.

“Failure to heed or give effect to the subsisting orders of the court will lead to the full force of the law being brought to bear upon your organization,” he said.

The missing $20 billion oil money was first raised by former Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, who accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of not accounting for the amount.

As petroleum minister, Mrs. Alison-Madueke is the chairperson of the board of the NNPC.

While the government denied that funds were missing, it ordered a forensic audit of the NNPC, carried out by PriceWaterHouseCoopers Limited.

Several months after the completion of the audit, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the report be withheld.
Last month, Mrs. Alison-Madueke told the Financial Times of London that the government was sitting on the report to ensure a “rabid” opposition does not exploit every of its detail to ridicule the government ahead of crucial polls March 28.

Under immense pressure from Nigerians, the government released a “highlight” of the report, which indeed proved the NNPC was indebted to the government, but at a much lower rate of $1.49billion.

The petroleum minister has since directed the NNPC to pay the money to the federation account.

Notwithstanding, many Nigerians have continued to demand the release of the full report.

The minister and her finance counterpart, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, have repeatedly flouted the directives of the House of Representatives that the report be made public.

Source:

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/178649-missing-20bn-alison-madueke-sues-premium-times-apc-9-others.html

Msheeew

[b]Only in Nigeria will you see one unrepentant prehistoric pen-robber suing people because they called her a thief which she is.... Smh

Madueke is the mother of corruption in this country. Right from her time in shell when she falsely backdated her graduation year from havard university to gain employment, the woman became mother of crime.

She has stolen billions of naira during her reign as the minister of works in 2007

• madueke claimed to have spent the sum of 30.9 billion naira as payment to contractors who "rehabilitated" the sagamu-benin express way. We all know what happened after that.

• same arm-robber madueke wasted 10billion naira just to service her private jets

• the Nigeria senate indicted this thieving madueke when she fraudulently transferred 1.2billion naira into her toll company far back in 2009.

• Even nuhu ribadu accused this hearless woman of stealing 28billion naira from oil revenue and royalty


The crimes of this woman is just three-much that I can't recall all. Diezani has stolen about 50billion naira from her time as the minister of transport 2007 to 2009.. I really can't imagine the amount of money the obanje woman would have stolen under this gej corrupt administration.[/b]

Useless woman.Hope u won't bolt away on MAY 29? It is only here that a renowed THIEF get mouth to talk/threaten hell.THIEF,wey the money whey u swallow

DaBullIT:
Bold face Armed Robbery of Nigerians sponsored by Commander in Thief of Armed robbers Badluck Egbere Joesatan

The same measure shall be given to you and your family now and in the future. At the peak of your career, men and women, old and young shall ridicule you to unparralled ignominy. You shall reap what you sow at the appointed time.

Democracy at work. Whatever is hidden will be made open one day. Let all parties concentrate on what they've got to offer better than the others. The truth is that they all have skeletons in their cbds. They are all guilty.

OBEY COURT ORDERS AND VOTE WISELY. BE NOT MISLED

Case closed.
Next pls

Okay, thank you ma. . but first. .

[size=20pt]PUBLISH THE FULL REPORT!!![/size]

Why is she afraid to do that? She was giving silly excuses like, people will pick out the little things in it. Yes, we want to pick out the little and big thing. If the NPDC (the upstream arm of the NNPC where less corruption can take place) was indicted of $1.4 billion, then only God knows how bad that of the downstream sector is! Shame!

This woman's hands are not clean...definitely

Yea. That's the way to go about it. You don't just go about accusing people of things they didn't do. I mean this is a democracy, your rights cannot infringe on mine. They should provide envidence of there allegations and not base on hearsay. Americans would brand you enemy of the state if you bring allegations against the government without concrete evidence.

OLADD:


The same measure shall be given to you and your family now and in the future. At the pick of your career, men and women, old and young shall ridicule you to unparralled ignominy. You shall reap what you sow at the appointed time.

so you are supporting diezani or what? I don't even understand the mindset of many nigerians. A woman is robbing your future and that of your unborn generation, and you said they shouldn't call her out? Na wa oo

liberty300:
Yea. That's the way to go about it. You don't just go about accusing people of things they didn't do. I mean this is a democracy, your rights cannot infringe on mine. They should provide envidence of there allegations and not base on hearsay. Americans would brand you enemy of the state if you bring allegations against the government without concrete evidence.

which useless evidence do you want to see ? Look there had been several allegations against NNPC for non-remittance of funds to the Federation Account by NEITI, KPMG and even Nuhu Ribadu. So basically what are you saying?

This woman has the nerves of iron

medicine after death....

nonsense of the highest order...

this woman!!

Don't worry she is going to kiri kiri.

This us to show that she is a criminal. And this woman worked in shell before. She got a job IB shell and she forgot all shells codes if conduct.

I will personally write to President Buhari to empower EFCC to prosecute and jail this woman.

If she is not guilty why is she filing a law suit. She is definitely guilty of this offence and we will follow it to to logical conclusion. Which is kirikiri. They should start furnishing all Nigerian prisons now. They still have enough days to raise a contract that will put all Nigerian prisons to their best state.

Ole, barawo. Dan bansa

Everyday money will missing in dis country. i wonder where d no money is going to.




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kastonkastrol:
so you are supporting diezani or what? I don't even understand the mindset of many nigerians. A woman is robbing your future and that of your unborn generation, and you said they shouldn't call her out? Na wa oo

It's your future that's been robbed and not mine. I guess you are one of rumour mongers and character assasins who malign fellow human beings without proven substance. If you have any evidence of Deziani's corrupt acts, pls bring it out, or else, keep your miserable and vilifying mouth shut forever.

Thief suing people, up till now no reasonable info on this missing $20B. This is the only one we new, I wonder they hidden stolen money. There is once a Country called Nigeria.

Well, well, well......watching in 3D.

Modified.....at least some money IS missing....so we will watch and see. Plus....NNPC has not been a clean house....and this goes way back...long before GEJ thought of being presido.

At the very least....I hope the trial leads to a clean up of the NNPC...it is about time.

A government sitting on an important report and they use FOI bill to campaign?....
For me and my household, we MUST do the needful come March28!

Ishilove:
This woman has the nerves of iron

am telling you my dear.. The woman have no shame. She should be the last person suing anybody in this country. Smh

How i wish this case can see the light but unfortunately this case will die a natural death like every other case in Nigeria

thief

First, the title is misleading. She did not sue the said organisations, but only obtained an a court order preventing them from ''slandering'' her name. But talk of gagging the press. So even if she now actually steals, nobody will report it abi? Our Judiciary needs to be overhauled. They rate at which they grant useless injunctions is too bad.

Meanwhile, click SHARE if you will vote GEJ for president, click LIKE if GMB is your choice.

Seriously? lol.....Ole lon mo ese ole to lori apata

Why won't she sue? Her boss has done worse things than that. And what happens next?

Ordinary stealing they are calling corruption. Sue them joor!

I hope she sues all the monikers here who talks about the looted money too. Don't worry dear, my PVC is good to go!