The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has described those who authorised the award of the now controversial P&ID gas supply contract as “people who do not have the interest of the Nigeria at heart.” Nigeria
Addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, he pleaded with Nigerians not to blame President Muhammad Buhari for the $9.6 billion judgment debt, claiming that the deal was an ‘organised scam’ from the outset, as the company allegedly had no lawful address but only operating from a lawyer’s office in the United Kingdom.
Malami pledged that government would not “sell out the interest of the country and the people in order to satisfy some elements who are consciously out to extort Nigerians for their selfish aggrandisement.
The minister continued: “Nigerians should also ask the PDP government that awarded the contract why it was given to a company, whose address is C/O of a lawyer’s office: Trident Chambers, P.O Box 146, Tortola, British Virgin Island and that means the company does not have an office of its own and has no record of executing any project of any kind close to what it was awarded in Nigeria”
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