‘I was a rubber stamp’ — Diezani tells UK court

Former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke told a UK tribunal that her relation successful approving lipid contracts was mostly routine, stating that large decisions were already taken earlier documents reached her desk.

Speaking astatine Southwark Crown Court successful London, she explained that the operation of Nigeria’s lipid assemblage meant she had constricted nonstop control, arsenic cardinal operations were handled by the enactment of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

“The strategy was already successful question earlier files came to me,” she said, adding that the size and complexity of the manufacture made it hard for a curate to oversee everything directly.

She said she seldom declined declaration approvals due to the fact that they had already passed done elaborate method and regulatory checks.
“I was, successful galore instances, a rubber stamp successful the process,” she said.

Diezani besides recounted a 2014 incidental successful which she discovered a questionable crude lipid woody allegedly linked to businessman Igho Sanomi. She said the m...