According to the news doing the rounds, Nigeria’s former Petroleum
Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, purchased Port Harcourt’s Le
Meridien Hotel using First Bank of Nigeria Executive Director (ED),
Dauda Lawal.
The revelation comes as the federal government of
Nigeria this week struggles to release the list of the nation’s looters
and saboteurs of the economy, an earth-shaking event the presidency says
will happen latest Thursday.
Barely two weeks after Lawal was
picked up by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the ED
has reportedly returned huge amounts of money laundered through him by
the ex-oil minister, with whom he was reported to be “extremely close.”
Mr.
Lawal is said to have returned millions of dollars to the EFCC as the
agency prepared to let him go on oil it was revealed that he had
brokered the purchase of Le Meridien Hotel in Port Harcourt on behalf of
the ex-Minister.
While investigators reportedly tried to seize
the hotel, the Presidency pushed for the refund of the money from its
owners, sources said.
SaharaReporters learnt that the owners paid
back an amount that was said to be close to N18billion into the federal
government recovery account, a story Nigerians will be looking to
confirm in the government’s report in a few hours
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