Anietie Udobit,Abuja
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the
Federation, AGF, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has arrived Nigeria.
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Adoke’s flight touched down at the Nnamdi Azikwe
International Airport, Abuja at exactly 3:45 pm.
Former Federal Attorney was been repatriated by the Dubai
authorities following Nigeria’s request.
He is being accompanied by INTERPOL officers on Emirates
Airlines.
His aircraft had departed the Emirati commercial capital at
about 11 am and expected to arrive in Nigeria at 3:40pm.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in
2017 filed charges against Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Company Limited
and 10 others, including Adoke and Nigeria Agip Exploration Limited.
The anti-corruption commission in the case marked
FCT/HC/CR/124/17, filed charges bordering on fraudulent allocation of the Oil
Prospecting Licence 245 and other forms of offences involving the sum of about
$1.2 billion, forgery of bank documents, bribery and corruption.
The alleged $1.2 billion scam involved the transfer of the
OPL 245 purportedly from Malabu Oil and Gas Limited to Shell Nigeria
Exploration Production Co. Limited and Nigeria Agip Exploration Limited.
But Adoke in a motion, M/763/19, filed by his counsel, Mike
Ozekhome, SAN, sought an order of the court striking out his name as a
defendant in a case pending before the court.
The former minister hinged the prayer, among others, on the
fact that he had secured a judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja, against
the Attorney-General of the Federation, representing the Federal Republic of
Nigeria in which he was completely exculpated with respect to the facts and
circumstances relating to the Malabu Oil scam.