Our reporter/ Former Petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke on Friday told a federal high court in the Abuja division that she had been away from the country since May 2015 because of cancer treatment.
In a writ of summons against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) marked CV/6273/2023, Diezani is asking for damages of N100 billion “for the false, injurious, malicious and libelous publications”.
According to her, the EFCC and AGF defamed her by claiming she is corrupt.
She explained that toward the end of the tenure of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, she was diagnosed with “the most aggressive form of breast cancer” which she identified as “Triple Negative Cancer”.
Subsequently, she hurriedly flew to England on May 22, 2015 “in order to undertake a critical course of treatment, which consisted of two operations, eight months of intensive chemotherapy and five weeks of radiotherapy”.
Since then, she said in the court papers, she has remained in England “undergoing medical care and treatment”.
The suit, marked CV/6273/23, was file by her counsel, Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate.
The EFCC and AGF were given 14 days from the service of the summons to enter their defence.
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