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DIEZANI DIDN’T TOUCH OUR LIVES –KINSMEN

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September 2, 2017

There have been calls from some many quarters for the extradition of former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Allison- Madueke. But a trip to her community Yenaka Community, a small Island in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State by Saturday Telegraph, showed that the indigenes are saying that Diezani did not touch their lives in spite of the amount of money she is alleged to have stolen from the nation’s coffers.

A foster brother to the former Minister, Maxwell Agama, said: “If you look at the compound here, there is nothing to show that she was a minister and they are saying she stole money. She only gave us a walkway. “Her father’s house is there, nothing has been done.

We have a lot of land here, nothing. Even now that she has not done anything, they want to kill her. If she has done something don’t you think they would have killed her already? There are so many allegations which are not true. “I don’t have much to say because I don’t know what is happening. I don’t know whether she stole money or not. I’m a villager. I don’t go to anywhere. I have not been abroad. We don’t even talk, so I don’t actually know what is happening.

Telegraph, September 2, 2017

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seyi jelili

September 2, 2017 at 6:47 am

Mumu foster brother, how will you know if she stole money or not? Well, she didn’t only stole money but she ate money

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JOHNSON PETER

September 2, 2017 at 7:07 am

Most politicians don’t contribute meaningful development to their place of origin, so I am not surprised Of madueke’s own too. The road to David Mark ‘s home town in Benue is as worst as the worst thing in the world.

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- Balarabe musa
  
  September 2, 2017 at 7:33 am
  
  You are right, but they are being cautious as well so that people won’t accuse them of siphoning money to develop their community
  
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  - Anita Kingsley
    
    September 2, 2017 at 5:33 pm
    
    Is it not better to siphon money to develop your community and be prosecuted than siphoning money to develop other communities and still be prosecuted? Your people will never deny you, other people will. Despite all the allegations, people from her community still believe she didn’t do anything, that’s LOVE
    
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Abeni Adebisi

September 2, 2017 at 5:26 pm

If she had touched her community, may be they won’t be accusing her of ‘stealing all the monies in Jonathan’s regime’, perhaps they would have given her humanitarian awards instead.

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Animashaun Ayodeji

September 2, 2017 at 5:31 pm

Diezani is too selfish to extend her illegal riches to others outside her family. She never thought the government would come after her this hard, if she had thought of days like this, she wouldn’t have embezzled so much

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