A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Wahab Shittu, has blamed the difficult legal procedures involved in extradition for the inability of the Nigerian government to properly prosecute former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, for over eight years.
Shittu, who was a guest on a cable television current affairs programme, said that the difficult procedures involved in extraditing someone from another country are the reasons the former minister is yet to be tried adequately.
According to him, 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.
He added that there are judicial procedures, there are also some administrative international procedures that must be complied with.
Alison-Madueke is alleged to have looted millions of dollars belonging to Nigerian when she served as a minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
She has been away in the United Kingdom since the end of Jonathan’s administration and has been unable to appear before Nigerian courts where cases have been instituted against her by the government.
