The former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke has urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC to retrieve her seized assets from their buyers.
The former minister specifically requested that the court direct the anti-graft agency to recover the seized properties from the individuals or entities to whom they were sold.
Alison-Madueke made this request through an amended application filed on her behalf by her lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), before Justice Inyang Ekwo.
She sought an order to set aside the EFCC’s public notice, which served as the basis for the public auction of her assets.
Alison-Madueke argued that the auction breached her right to a fair hearing as guaranteed under Section 36(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
