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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a suit filed against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and others, challenging the appointment of a consultant to monitor the spending of the $311 million repatriated loot of the former Head of State, Sani Abacha.<\/div>\n
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\nJustice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the suit lacked merit as there was no credible evidence to support the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have said that this court is deciding this case upon its peculiar facts and circumstances.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThis type of action is such that must succeed on its own strength and not on the weakness or failure of the defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can safely say at this point that I am unable to ascribe probative value to the documentary evidence in this case.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“My finding, therefore, is that there is no credible evidence to support this case and it fails and I so hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cI make an order dismissing this case for lack of credible evidence.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is the judgement of this court,\u201d Justice Ekwo ruled.<\/p>\n

Pointblanknews.com reports that PPP Advisories, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Issa Shuaibu & Co. (as PPP Advisories Consortium) are 1st to 3rd claimants respectively.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The claimants, through their counsel, Daniel Bwala, had sued the AGF and Minister of Justice; the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Dayo Apata, SAN (Chairman, Ministerial Tenders Board); and Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) as 1st to 3rd Defendants respectively in the matter.<\/p>\n

In a writ of summon marked: FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/1449\/2020, the claimants prayed the court to declare that their disqualification \u201cby the defendants as communicated via a letter dated July 28, 2020, wherein the claimants Technical\/Financial Bids submitted were not adjudged responsive due to the fact that the lead partner is not a registered Civil Society Organization (CSO) is wrongful, illegal and void.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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They averred that having satisfied the requirement of the Request for Proposal (RFP) in respect of the monitoring of the implementation of the tripartite agreement for the sharing, transfer, disposition, repatriation, and management of forfeited assets and the entire bidding process, they urged the court to declare that the procuring entity can no longer disqualify their technical bid after the pre-qualification of the technical and issuance of letter of invitation for financial bid opening.<\/p>\n

They also sought a court declaration that their disqualification \u201cbased on a petition by one of the bidders without confronting the claimants with the petition is against the principle of fair hearing\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs, therefore, sought an order of the court, \u201csetting aside the decision of the procurement panel adjudging the claimants technical and financial proposal as non-responsive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn order directing the defendants to issue a letter declaring the claimants as the winning bidder, and invite the claimants for negotiation, haven achieved the highest combined technical and financial score and therefore emerged the winner of the bid.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\nThey also prayed the court to award the sum of fifty million naira as the cost of the suit, and the 10 per cent of the Judgment sum to be awarded by the court per annum till the liquidation of same.<\/p>\n

They averred, among others, that the 1st claimant is a registered business name in Nigeria with the Corporate Affairs Commission (hereinafter referred to as CAC) who is into consultancy services for infrastructural procurement, financing and development activities.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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