A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Wahab Shittu, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu’s administration is determined to extradite former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and others who have fled the country over allegations of crime.
OsunDailyNG recalls that Alison-Madueke is alleged to have looted millions of dollars belonging to Nigeria when she served as a minister under the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan.
She has been away in the United Kingdom for over 8 years and is unable to appear before Nigerian courts, where cases have been instituted against her by the government.
In an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Shittu said that the former minister has yet to be adequately prosecuted because of the difficult legal procedures involved in extraditing someone from another country.
He said, “You know the extradition procedures of getting somebody who has taken flight from one country to another country involves some legal compliance procedures that must be satisfied before somebody can be brought or extradited from another country to Nigeria.
“There are judicial procedures, there are also some administrative international procedures that must be complied with.
“I think efforts are being made by successive Nigerian governments, particularly this administration to ensure that those who have fled the country particularly Diezani are extradited back to the country to face their trials.
“That difficulty is because you have legal and extra-legal hurdles to surmount if this is to be achieved.”
