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Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke got a court order restraining National Assembly from probing her on Thursday. Thereby, halting all proceedings to probe the controversial minister. It will be recalled that the House of Representatives had summoned the minister to appear before its committee
investigating her alleged spending of N10 billion on chartered aircraft. The minister and NNPC, first and
second plaintiffs, however, filed a suit seeking to stop the lawmakers from
embarking on the probe.
The plaintiffs had joined the Senate
and the House of Representatives as co-defendants.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in his
ruling, ordered parties to maintain the status quo pending the hearing of the
substantive suit. He noted that the committee had no
genuine reason to go ahead with the proposed probe, being aware of the pending
suit seeking order to restrain it from doing the investigation.
The judge said that the filing of
the suit did not amount to usurping the legislative powers of the National
Assembly as claimed by the committee.
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