EFCC begins probe of Former Petroleum Minister

Monday 31 August 2015

EFCC begins probe of Former Petroleum Minister


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has commence a full scale investigation of the activities of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke during is tenure in office.

Punch Newspapers reports that a four-member committee of crack detectives, constituted a commission to probe all the accounts of the NNPC, which were supervised by the former minister.

It is believed that the commission is led by a Superintendent of Police, while the other three members of the committee were pioneer civilian operatives of the commission with high capacity for investigation.


A senior operative, with the EFCC, revealed to Punch that:
“I think the commission has commenced investigation into this Diezani issue. It is not just about inviting her, the commission has set up a four-man team of crack detectives to investigate her operations in the NNPC.

“The terms of reference of the committee include to look into all the NNPC accounts which were under the supervision of Mrs. Alison-Madueke.

“The committee has since commenced work; they are still working. I think a very senior police officer, a Police Superintendent, is leading the other operatives in the probe of Diezani and multiple accounts of the NNPC.”

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