The Human and Environmental Development Agenda, which petitioned the Code of Conduct Bureau over the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Alfa Begore’s alleged roles in the $9.6bn judgment awarded against Nigeria, has assured the bureau of its readiness to testify against the former judiciary helmsman.
The Chairman of HEDA, Mr Olanrewaju Suraju, told The PUNCH on Tuesday he was invited by the bureau after he submitted his September 30, 2019 petition to adopt the content and give assurance about his availability to testify in the case.
Suraju said, “After we submitted the petition, we received a call from the bureau inviting us to appear to adopt the petition as ours and to assure it that we would be ready to honour further invitations if we are needed and to testify in the event that the matter gets to court.
“I appeared before the Intelligence, Enforcement and Investigations department of the bureau on October 4, 2019 and signed documents adopting the content of the petition as our own and assuring them that the content was true to the best of our knowledge. We also gave them all assurances they requested, including that we would be available to testify in the case.”
The group had in its petition sent to the CCB and President Muhammadu Buhari accused Belgore of charges including conflict of interest as a result of his roles in the proceedings leading to the award of $9.6bn in favour of a British Virgin Island firm, Process and Industrial Developments.
The award was, in January 2017, issued by a British arbitration tribunal in London in favour of P&ID and against Nigeria over the country’s alleged breach of a gas supply contract.
Source: Punch Newspaper
