Protesters have stormed the United Kingdom High Commission in Abuja over a UK court judgement which granted Process and Industrial Development Ltd (P&ID) to take over $9.6 billion worth of Nigeria’s asset.
The protesters, identified as Coalition of Civil Society Groups, began their protest on Monday and have vowed to continue their action for the next one week until the judgement is reversed.
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Some of their placards read: “$9.6bn judgement is a fraud,” “Nigeria and Britain are friends, not enemies,” “No to illegal takeover of our national assets,” “Nigeria rejects fraudulent judgment from British judge.”
The Federal Government had directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and the police to investigate the activities of the P&ID, their promoters, and the contract leading to the UK judgement among others.
The company, however, advised on Sunday that the Federal Government should “appoint an authorised party to enter into real negotiations” instead of what it called Nigeria’s “baseless slander and sham investigations against the P&ID and its founders.”
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