Ibe Kachikwu, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, during the first tenure of former President Muhammadu Buhari, has been mentioned in the criminal charges leveled against Diezani Alison-Madueke.
In the court process seen by The Cable, Kachikwu was mentioned alongside Benedict Peters, Aiteo chief executive officer (CEO) and Haruna Momoh, a former managing director of pipelines and product marketing company (PPMC).
Other Nigerians mentioned in the court process are Olatimbo Bukola Ayinde and Doye Agama.
According to the court process, Kachikwu was bribed in August 2015 “with the intention of influencing his capacity as a foreign public official”. When he was the managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
The document added that the act was contrary to sections 6 and 11 of the Bribery Act 2010.
Alison-Madueke, who was Nigeria’s minister of petroleum resources between 2010 and 2015, is charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets, and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts.
She allegedly received bribes as Nigeria’s petroleum minister in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts, Reuters reports.
According to Reuters, the former minister, on Monday, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court, where she spoke only to give her name, date of birth and address.
The charges against her were read out in court, but she was not asked formally to enter a plea. Her lawyer, Mark Bowen, told the court she would be pleading not guilty, the news agency also reports.