The Diezani world’s most expensive bras valued at the $12.5-million (£8.5-million) include Heavenly Star Bra, by sapphires, which has at its centerpiece a 90-carat emerald cut diamond that was worth $10.6 million (£7.28 million) alone at the time.
The Nigerian Government has begun the process for the valuation and sale of property belonging to the country’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Platforms Africa reports that the property includes Bras, Brazier, Jewellery, wristbands and gold wristwatches earlier forfeited to the government.
Asides these, “Diezani property located in the posh Banana Island Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, include 18 flats and six penthouses located at Building 3, Block B, Bella Vista, Plot 1, Zone N, Federal Government Layout, will also be auctioned” a report by Punch quoting the Solicitor General read.
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Diezani, who was the minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, has been in the United Kingdom since 2015 and has refused to return to Nigeria ever since. She was at some point reported to have acquired the citizenship of the Dominican Republic and bagged a diplomatic passport.
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, Platforms Africa recalls, had told the House of Representatives in May that jewellery worth N14bn was seized from Diezani.
The former Oil minister’s recovered items which were listed are 125 pieces of wedding gowns, 13 pieces of small gowns, 41 pieces of waist trainers, 73 pieces of hard flower, 11 pieces of suit, 11 pieces of invisible bra, 73 pieces of veils, 30 pieces of braziers, two pieces of standing fan, 17 pieces of magic skits, six packets of blankets, one table blanket and 64 pairs of shoes.
Also, the Diezani property located in the posh Banana Island Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, include 18 flats and six penthouses located at Building 3, Block B, Bella Vista, Plot 1, Zone N, Federal Government Layout, The Punch reports.
Meanwhile, other notable properties listed include those belonging to the late Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, whose houses in the Wuse 2 and Maitama high-brow neighbourhoods of Abuja were confiscated by the Nigerian Government.
