Ebun Francis || Abubakar Malami, the attorney general of the federation on Wednesday said that President Buhari’s administration has no plans to bring back the former minister of petroleum resources, Dieziani Alison Madueke to the country under any guise.
Malami while addressing state house correspondents at the end of Wednesday’s federal executive council meeting in Abuja said that there was no need to bring Dieziani back to Nigeria as a witness since she was already facing money laundering charges in the United Kingdom.
He said, “ The federal government will not take any decision that will jeopardise what the UK government is doing”.
“The truth of the matter is that the government is doing something especially on issues of corruption and litigation in Nigeria and outside the country,” he said.
“Considering the fact that there is an existing understanding between Nigeria and other countries especially United Kingdom on the recovery of stolen funds, you cannot say government is not doing anything.”
Malami informed reporters that steps have been taken by the UK authorities on issues bordering on corrupt practices involving Nigerians.
“If Nigeria feels strongly that there is need to bring Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke here to face charges of corruption, government will not hesitate to do that,” he said.
“As things are now, there is no need for that since the UK government is already investigating her and government will not take any decision that will jeopardise what the UK government is doing.”
“The issue is not about fair hearing now, we are talking about investigation first and it is not within Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke’s power to ask the federal government to bring her to testify in any case in Nigeria,” Malami added.