Mrs Mariam Ali
A Presidential aide is standing surety for one of the oil marketers on trial for alleged fuel subsidy fraud before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja.
Mrs. Mariam Ali, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter-governmental Relations, is standing surety for Mr. Christian Taylor, who claims to be a Sierra Leonean.
Mrs. Ali is the wife of former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Dr. Ahmadu Ali.
Ali’s son, Mamman, is also among the suspects on trial for alleged N3billion subsidy scam.
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo on July 26 granted bail to Taylor and other co-defendants, including Mamman, in the sum of N20million each and two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties, the court said, must be his blood relation with landed property within the jurisdiction of the court.
But Taylor, through his counsel, Mr. Toyin Pinheiro (SAN), on July 30, applied for a variation of the bail conditions.
Taylor, along with Mamman Ali and Nasaman Oil Services, is facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence.
They were alleged to have fraudulently obtained N4,461,136,798.94 from the Federal Government, purporting it to be payment under Petroleum Support Fund as subsidy for the purported importation of Premium Motor Spirit(PMS) from Europe to Nigeria..
Mrs. Mariam Ali, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter-governmental Relations, is standing surety for Mr. Christian Taylor, who claims to be a Sierra Leonean.
Mrs. Ali is the wife of former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Dr. Ahmadu Ali.
Ali’s son, Mamman, is also among the suspects on trial for alleged N3billion subsidy scam.
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo on July 26 granted bail to Taylor and other co-defendants, including Mamman, in the sum of N20million each and two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties, the court said, must be his blood relation with landed property within the jurisdiction of the court.
But Taylor, through his counsel, Mr. Toyin Pinheiro (SAN), on July 30, applied for a variation of the bail conditions.
Taylor, along with Mamman Ali and Nasaman Oil Services, is facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence.
They were alleged to have fraudulently obtained N4,461,136,798.94 from the Federal Government, purporting it to be payment under Petroleum Support Fund as subsidy for the purported importation of Premium Motor Spirit(PMS) from Europe to Nigeria..
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