As President Muhammadu Buhari travels to the United
States (US) today to engage President Barack Obama in talks
on economic, security, financial and anti-graft issues, it has
emerged that he has ordered the preparation of the case-file
that would lead to the prosecution of the indicted persons in
the $182 million Halliburton bribery scandal.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that
the President’s directive
followed the requirement by the
US government of evidence to
show that Buhari was ready to
prosecute the suspects in
Nigeria for their roles in the
bribery scandal before it could
partner other European
countries in releasing the $141million dollars allegedly
looted from Nigeria and lodged in various overseas banks.
According to top security sources, Buhari, based on the
outcome of investigations by the panel set up to look into
the scandal, is scheduled to tell Americans officials during
this week’s visit that all those indicted, including former
Heads of State, a former Vice President, two former Group
Managing Directors of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, will face prosecution to defend themselves.
To further convince the US officials that the kangaroo trial
that took place during the Jonathan administration, which
saw a former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to the
President being arraigned and then let off the hook
following alleged connivance of certain government
institutions, will not re-occur, the President will tell them
that private legal practitioners, who cannot compromise
because of past government patronage, will be
commissioned to handle the case.
It will be recalled that the recent directive by Buhari to
reopen the Halliburton bribery case led to the discovery that
the $26.5 million plea bargain money released by the oil
servicing firm as part of efforts to shield the company from
prosecution was not in any government account.




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With the pace and zeal you are using to open all these case files pls use that to deal with the Boko Haram disease that's eating people up north.

n dy said baba is slow..pls tell them #slow n steady WINS D RACE

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Candyrain:
With the pace and zeal you are using to open all these case files pls use that to deal with the Boko Haram disease that's eating people up north.

Only by this would I be very sure that PMB is ready to indiscriminately fight corruption. And, so much glad would I be wielding a total support for him! But until then, I express reservations over his corruption fight.

rubbish journalism, haliburton at the time this graft was committed was headed by a sitting American vice president. the company has corruption cases worldwide, even the Nigerian case has already been tried in France and as usual nothing much came out of it. it's either that this newspaper is lying or buhari doesn't know how to choose his fights.