The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja has ordered the arrest of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dan Etete, and two others in connection with the Malabu Oil scam.
Etete was ordered arrested along with Munamuna Seidougha and Joseph Amaran by
Justice Abubakar Kutigi on Thursday.
This followed an ex parte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which accused Etete, Seidougha and Amaran of playing roles in the alleged fraudulent allocation of Oil Processing Licence 245 to Malabu Oil and Gas Limited in 1998.
The three were said to be the owners of Malabu Oil and Gas Limited to which Etete, as the then Minister of Petroleum under the regime of General Sani Abacha, facilitated the alleged fraudulent allocation of the oil block.
EFCC had named Etete, Seidougha, and Amaran as being on the run in the 42 counts of the alleged fraudulent Malabu Oil transactions recently filed against the immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), and six others.
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