Olasupo Shasore, a former Lagos attorney-general and commissioner for justice, has been cleared of corruption allegations in the Process and Industrial Developments caseIn a judgement delivered by email, Robin Knowles, justice of the Commercial Courts of England and Wales, ruled that Shasore has not been “shown to be corrupt” in the case
With the interest rate fixed at seven percent amounting to $1 million a day, the potential payment had accumulated to over $11 billion before the verdict.The company had claimed that it entered into a contract to build a gas processing plant in Calabar, Cross River state and that the deal collapsed because the Nigerian government did not fulfil its end of the bargain.The federal government accused Shashore of compromising the case in favour of P&ID.
“Fourth, a review of the transcript of the hearing on liability shows repeated robust challenges by him of P&ID, and indeed of the tribunal; and it is impossible to read pages 55-59 and 68-71 of that transcript as other than properly attempting through argument to secure an outcome in favour of Nigeria.”
“Nothing links Mr Ukiri’s email with the payment, or shows why Mr Shasore SAN should go about things in this way if he was behind P&ID receiving copies of Nigeria’s Internal Legal Documents.”The UK judge said Abubakar Malami, a former attorney-general of the federation, did not “in truth believe” that Shasore was corrupt.