Former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa, has urged the Federal Government to constitute a team of legal experts to address similar issues, such as the P&ID case, to save many resources.
Recall that on Monday, Justice Robin Knowles of the Commercial Courts of England and Wales ruled in favour of Nigeria and quashed the enforcement of the $11 billion arbitration award in favour of Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Ltd.
He made this known during an interview on Arise TV on Tuesday.
His words: “I urge my successor, Lateef Fagbemi, not just to look at the judgment, but it should be an eye opener for him to constitute a high-powered team of legal experts to look at similar cases of enforcement of arbitral awards we are facing all over the world. This will save Nigeria a lot of resources.
Earlier in the interview, he stated that the award of the contract was a complete fraud that no one in government knew about.
“I’m so proud that at least our efforts to convince the UK layers to fight on the issue of fraud have been successful. The facts are obvious; the contract was contrary to public policy. It’s an infrastructural concession that didn’t follow the laid-down rules.
“Nobody from the infrastructural commission knew about the contract, as did the office of the Attorney General (which I occupied then) and also the Federal Executive Council; therefore, today Nigeria has been vindicated.”(Vanguard)
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