{"id":113416,"date":"2024-07-24T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=113416"},"modified":"2024-07-24T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T16:24:34","slug":"ex-justice-minister-aondoakaa-denies-testifying-against-fg-at-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ex-justice-minister-aondoakaa-denies-testifying-against-fg-at-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex- Justice Minister, Aondoakaa denies testifying against FG at ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1805466746614403582\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Bayo Davids<\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN has dismissed\u00a0 report that he has agreed to testify against Nigeria in the ongoing arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris, France.<\/p>\n<p>The former chief law officer of the Federation also, described the report as not only been a fake news but an outright mischief .<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I have denied testifying against Nigeria in sunrise arbitration against Nigeria. I filed an independent statement denying the unfounded allegations against me in certain paragraphs 165 and 166 in the\u00a0 FRN statement of defence and\u00a0 counterclaim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Advocate added that given that the offensive comments linked to him in FRN statement of defence and counter claim were not supported by any of the FRN\u00a0 witness statements, the Arbitral Tribunal should expunged them from its records.<br \/>\nAondoakaa stated further that apart from his official action as directed to him by late President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua\u00a0 concerning Mambilla hydropower project ,he is not for or against any party in the on going Sunrise Arbitration against Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>His actions, he were fully documented as\u00a0 official public documents of the Federal Republic\u00a0 of Nigeria, stressing that the said public documents of his actions concerning Mambila Hydropower power project in Tabara State can be obtained at the Federal Ministry of Justice, the Presidency and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Sunrise Power, a company promoted by Leno Adesanya, had, on October 10, 2017, started arbitration against Nigeria at the ICC seeking a $2.354 billion award for \u201cbreach of contract\u201d in relation to a 2003 agreement to construct the 3,050MW plant in Mambilla, Taraba state, on a \u201cbuild, operate and transfer\u201d (BOT) basis.<\/p>\n<p>On its part, the Nigerian government has maintained that Olu Agunloye, then minister of power, acted outside of his powers when he awarded his contract.<\/p>\n<p>The country is also alleging fraud and corruption in the award and in the subsequent settlement agreements reached in an attempt to settle the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Agunloye, a former Minister of Defence (Navy) is currently on trial in Nigeria for his alleged role in the contract saga. He denies all allegations.<\/p>\n<p>This is at variance with the report that Adesanya was\u00a0 represented by Mohammed Seidu Diri, a legal officer who served as Special Assistant to Aondoakaa when he was AGF.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations reveals that Mr. Diri, a\u00a0 then\u00a0 career civil servant, served as Senior Assistant to Chief Bayo Ojo SAN, before Aondoakaa&#8217;s appointment.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of Justice after Aondoakaa left the office as HAGF and retired as the Director of legal services at the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Director legal Services,\u00a0 Federal Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Presently Mohammed Saidu Diri SAN is practising as a lawyer with his law firm,\u00a0 M S Diri (SAN) &amp; CO in Abuja.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bayo Davids Former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, SAN has dismissed\u00a0 report that he has agreed to testify against Nigeria in the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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