Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria and the British government of unfair treatment in her ongoing bribery allegations trial in the United Kingdom.
The former Minister in a statement by her media, Bolouere Opukiri, Alison-Madueke, said her lawyers, Jonathan Laidlaw and Alistair Richardson, are accusing both the British and Nigerian governments of denying her access to important documents needed to defend herself.
she insisted that the trial should not continue if the authorities are unwilling to provide the materials necessary for her defence.
Alison-Madueke is undergoing trial for corruption at the Southwark Crown Court in London.
The former Minister, who was also briefly President of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is standing trial alongside her brother Doye Agama, 69, who has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery relating to his church.
Their co-defendant Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, has pleaded not guilty to one count of bribing Alison-Madueke between 2012 and 2014 and one count of bribery of a foreign public official.
