NewsCSOs, Labour, Others To Picket British, Irish Embassies Over $9.6bn Judgment

CSOs, Labour, Others To Picket British, Irish Embassies Over $9.6bn Judgment

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SAN FRANCISCO, August 30, (THEWILL) – The Coalition of Civil Society Groups (CCSG) Friday said it would picket the British and Irish Embassies this Monday to protest the $9bn judgment against Nigeria by a British court in favour of Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), a little-known Irish engineering company, over a now controversial gas contract with Nigeria.

Secretary of the coalition, Mr. Abubakar Ibrahim said the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS as well as other several other pro-democracy groups will join the picketing.

“The president has directed that all Executive members and affiliated organizations from all states should return back to Abuja for a national duty that will be taken place on 2nd of September, 2019.

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“You are hereby directed to be in Abuja latest on the 1st of September for the 2nd of September, 2019 protest during which we will occupy British Embassy and Irish embassy for one week with a call for reversal of the $9.6bn fraudulent judgment by UK court instituted by P&ID Irish company against our beloved nation,” the statement read by Ibrahim read.

“This protest will be massive because we are all displeased with the fraudulent judgment. Those behind this fraud must be held accountable and punished,” Ibrahim further said in a briefing in Abuja.

Nigeria has appealed the ruling of the London court and launched a criminal investigation into the signing of the contract in 2010 which the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aandoakaa says he nor the Ministry had no knowledge of and that it was not even discussed at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) where such matters ought to be deliberated and approved.

Abubakar Malami, serving attorney-general of the federation and Justice Minister also said the contract was designed to fail adding that the deal was between P&ID and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources which does not produce gas. He described those who brought Nigeria into the deal as economic saboteurs.

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