Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has suggested that her efforts to tackle corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry and the powerful interests affected by those reforms contributed to the legal and political battles that followed her tenure in office.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC days after a London court acquitted her of all bribery charges, Alison-Madueke said the UK’s National Crime Agency, NCA, failed to properly understand the realities of Nigeria’s oil sector before pursuing a case against her.
She said investigators treated her as “low-hanging fruit”, while ignoring the anti-corruption efforts she undertook as petroleum minister and the enemies she made in the process.
“I think that being such a low-hanging fruit in terms of opposition and the accusations they were throwing at me throughout that period, I wish they had taken a step back and looked with a little more depth at
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