The Minister of Petroleum Resources,
Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has halted the investigation by the
House of Representatives into the N10bn she allegedly spent on a
chartered private jet, Challenger 850, in the last two years for her
trips.
The House Committee on Public Accounts
investigating the expenditure was set to conduct a public hearing on
Monday, but it was stalled by an Abuja Federal High Court order.
Alison- Madueke and the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation listed the...
National Assembly and the
House of Representatives as the defendants in the suit with reference
number FHC/ABJ/CS/295/2014 and dated April 11, 2014. “This has never happened before in this country that a serving minister
is asking a court to stop the parliament from doing its work,” a
committee source said.
“These are indeed, no ordinary times. I am seriously disturbed about the way we want to run this country”, he added.
The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Zakari Mohammed, confirmed the development to journalists. Alison-Madueke had twice failed to respond to letters the committee
wrote, asking her to state her side of the allegation preparatory to the
public hearing.
The court order
indicated that after hearing an ex parte motion moved by
Alison-Madueke’s counsel, Etigwe Uwa (SAN), Justice Ahmed Mohammed
made an order directing the defendants to appear before the court to
show cause why the interim orders sought by the plaintiffs should not be
made by the court.
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