{"id":17125,"date":"2023-12-23T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17125"},"modified":"2023-12-23T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T14:47:34","slug":"alleged-money-laundering-ex-nigerian-petroleum-minister-diezani-begs-tinubu-for-leniency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17125","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Money Laundering: Ex-Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Begs Tinubu For Leniency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Former Nigerian petroleum minister Diezani Alison Maduekwe, who fled to the UK out of fear of the EFCC, has pleaded with the Nigerian government for mercy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reportedly suffering from stage two cancer, Diezani has asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to permit her to return to Nigeria and confess to any misappropriation while in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In London for a medical visit, Diezani revealed her readiness to come clean about the billions of dollars she allegedly stole during her time as petroleum minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The former minister, acknowledging her misappropriation, said, &#8220;Life is temporary,&#8221; and asked for forgiveness to contribute her part to her home country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Diezani also expressed concern over the 9 billion dollars she entrusted to Dauda Lawal Dare, the current Zamfara State governor, who has since cut off communication with her and allegedly collaborated with UK police to monitor her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She pleaded with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for assistance in returning to Nigeria to explain and provide evidence of the funds she misappropriated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Diezani emphasized her love for Nigeria and her desire to return home, despite the challenges she is facing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian petroleum minister Diezani Alison Maduekwe, who fled to the UK out of fear of the EFCC, has pleaded with the Nigerian government for mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8225,843,8223,8224,3968],"class_list":["post-17125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alison-maduekwe","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-ex-nigerian-petroleum-minister","tag-leniency","tag-money-laundering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17127,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions\/17127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}