Alison-Madueke gets court injunction stopping reps from probing N10b jet scandal g

Minister of Petroleum, Dieziani Alison-Madueke, who has been
in the middle of a 10bn jet scandal has secured a court
injunction stopping the House of Representatives from further
investigating her, Premium Times reports. Alison-Madueke had
approached a federal high court in Abuja where she asked the
court to restrain the House members to discontinue any probe
involving her.
Justice . R. Mohammed who presided over the case, barred the
house members or their committees from summoning her for
any further investigations or even ordering her arrest if she
failed to appear before the house. According to reports, the
court injuction was secured on April 14th but was only made
public today as the House intended to commence further
investigation on the matter today.
Speaking on the court injunction, the Chairman of the House
Public Accounts Committee, Solomon Olamilekan said they were
surprised by the court injunction.
"Today is April 28, the committee scheduled to receive the
honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources and other
agencies that have stake in this investigation. But as we
speak, there is a court order, which has been served to the
office of the speaker, even though the committee has not
gotten the copy of that order. The nature of the court
order is simple. They are just restraining us from carrying
out our own investigation" he said.
Spokesperson of the house, Zakary Mohammed said the house
would obey the court injunction
"As a law abiding arm of government, we will tarry a while
and of course take a legal opinion as far as issues are
concerned" he said
A member of the House, Samuel Adejare had on March 20th
presented a motion before the house accusing the minister of
committing about 500,000 Euros (N130 million naira) monthly
to maintain an aircraft for her personal use and those of her
immediate family.