The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN, has said patrotism took flight
in the hearts of Nigerians involved who were involved in the controversial P&ID contract which later accumulated to $9.6 billion court judgement against Nigeria by an Irish company.
In a chat with media executives in Abuja, yesterday, the AGF averred that the contract was shrouded in scam from the onset, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari, should be absolved of culpability in the case in which judgement was delivered by the United Kingdom court against Nigeria.
Malami who was embittered over the high profile debt said it is even regrettably that the company (P&ID) has no traceable address in Nigeria, stressing that the company only operated from a lawyer’s chamber in the UK.
While promising to unearth faces behind the scam, he said: “It is to be noted that while we are willing to negotiate and meet the terms of agreements reached with all foreign companies and investors which have carried out business with Nigeria on mutually beneficial terms.
“We will not allow fraudulent local and foreign collaborators to rip off the resources of the nation for no just cause in order to be seen as being nice or investor friendly.”
According to him, those who are comfortable with the judgement and blaming the government for a contract that was awarded 9 years ago, which is 5 years before Buhari came to office should be kind and truthful enough to ask those who awarded the contract what it was about and why it was never implemented.
He charged patriotic Nigerians to ask the Peoples Democractic Party (PDP), who was in control of government at that time why a contract of such magnitude was given to a company without valid address and in C/O of a lawyer’s office at Trident Chambers, with P.O. Box 146, Tortola, British Virgin Island.