A prosecution witness in the trial of the former Director of Legal Services in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Grace Taiga, wednesday told an Abuja High Court that the defendant claimed to have forwarded the draft of the contractual agreement between Nigeria and an Irish firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited to the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice for necessary action.
A British Commercial Court in August this year held that the firm can seize assets belonging to Nigeria anyway in the world to recover the sum of $9.6billion judgment debt in its favour. Babangida said that the commission decided to extend invitation to Taiga after it discovered her name in the list of members of the technical team that handled the project.
Babangida further told the court that then former Minister of Petroleum Resources, the late Rilwanu Lukman signed the agreement on behalf of Nigeria, while Taiga witnessed for the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. Earlier in his evidence the first prosecution witness, Remigius Ugwu, a bank staff, told the court that the sum of 500 Euros and $10,000 were paid into the naira and dollar accounts of the defendants at various times between 2014 and 2019.
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