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The Presidency has broken its silence on a French Court for the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets. Citing Financial Times, Daily Trust had reported…

The Presidency has broken its silence on a French Court for the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets.

Citing Financial Times, Daily Trust had reported how the court ordered seizure of the aircraft over a botched deal Ogun State government and a Chinese company.

The jets listed for seizure are a Dassault Falcon 7X, a Boeing 737-7N6/BBJ and an Airbus A330-243 stationed at Paris-Le Bourget and Basel-Mulhouse airports.

Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited,, a Chinese company whose export processing zone management contract was revoked by the Ogun state government in 2016, had approached the court.
Responding in a statement issued by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the Presidency accused the company of misleading the court.

According to Onanuga, Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, is working with Ogun government to quash the case.

“The Presidency is aware of the various failed attempts by a Chinese company, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, to take over offshore assets of the Federal Government of Nigeria through subterfuge.

“The Federal Government is not under any contractual obligation with the company. The case in which Zhongshan is trying to use every unorthodox means to strip our offshore assets is between the company and the Ogun State Government.

“The Federal Government is fully aware of efforts being made by the Ogun State Government to reach an amicable resolution on the matter.

“It must be said without any equivocation that Zhongshan has no solid ground to demand restitution from the Ogun State Government based on the facts regarding the 2007 contract between the company and the State Government to manage a free-trade zone.

“When the contract with Ogun State was revoked in 2015, the company had only erected a perimeter fence on the land earmarked for a free trade zone. While the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is working with the Ogun State Government on an amicable resolution, Zhongshan obtained two orders from the Judicial Court of Paris dated March 7, 2024, and August 12, 2024, without any notice being duly served on the Federal Government of Nigeria and Ogun State Government.

“This arm-twisting tactic by the Chinese company is the latest in a long list of failed moves to attach Nigerian government-owned assets in foreign jurisdictions.

“The material facts in the transaction between the Ogun State Government and Zhongshan point to another P&ID case in which unscrupulous and questionable individuals falsely present themselves as investors with the sole objective of undercutting and scamming Governments in Africa.

“Undoubtedly, Zhongshan withheld vital information and misled the Judicial Court in Paris into attaching the Nigerian government’s presidential jets, which are on routine maintenance in France. The use and nature of the Presidential jets as assets of a Sovereign entity whose assets are protected by diplomatic immunity forbid any foreign Court from issuing an order against them.

“We are convinced the Chinese company misled the Judicial Court of Paris regarding the use and nature of the assets it seeks to attach and did not fully disclose to the court as required by law.

“This same Chinese company had tried to enforce its questionable judgment in the UK and USA but failed.

“We want to assure Nigerians that the Federal Government is working with the Ogun State Government to discharge this frivolous order in Paris immediately.”

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-fg-knocks-chinese-company-says-presidential-jets-cant-be-seized/

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Oni Gbesé, go and pay your debts and retrieve your aircraft, stop barking from the Villa.


Shebi wen Eyes blind, mirror go rest.

Dem mumu no b small

It's just like trying to seize the air force one

The Chinese company will fail in France, the way they failed in the USA and UK

Tinubu keeps embarrassing Nigerians all over the world and bringing disrespect to the office of the president.
Never again will a charlatan occupy the office of the president in this country.

But Nigeria get power o just dilapidated leaders if not.

Islie:
The Presidency has broken its silence on a French Court for the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets. Citing Financial Times, Daily Trust had reported…




https://dailytrust.com/breaking-fg-knocks-chinese-company-says-presidential-jets-cant-be-seized/

Previous thread:
3 Nigerian Presidential Jets Seized In France As Ogun State, Chinese Firm Battle


Nlfpmod

Chinese will soon take over aso rock but they say we have demon inside aso rock.

Just imagine They should take Ogun State property or the state

Toh

The Chinese company should be ready to face the music.

Their tactics are just too obvious

Dey play tunubv go still trek from nigeria to france,to protest about the jet

Islie:
The Presidency has broken its silence on a French Court for the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets. Citing Financial Times, Daily Trust had reported…




https://dailytrust.com/breaking-fg-knocks-chinese-company-says-presidential-jets-cant-be-seized/

Previous thread:
3 Nigerian Presidential Jets Seized In France As Ogun State, Chinese Firm Battle


Nlfpmod

May we not become a laughing stock.

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They can be seized If they were not under active government use, which they were not. It is up to them to contest the order in French courts

Nigeria is part of the CREFAA UN convention. If you go into business with a foreign country and they use state power to defraud you, invoke the arbitration award in the existing legal agreement at the UN or go and get damage awards from your own country and have UN recognize it.
If they recognize it, you can use it to ask any UN signatory country legal system to order seizure of foreign assets of that country within their jurisdiction as long as they are not under active diplomatic occupation (most UN countries signed the agreement).

It has been seized to pay off debt owned by Ogun state. It's better for federal government to hold Ogun state accountable for such stupid actions because they want their cronies

Very soon, the chinese will seize our oil wells because of the senselessness of the federal government.

Buhari and Tinubu have made Nigeria an object of ridicule around the world.

They allowed this national disgrace to get to this level.

The jets have already being seized. Pay your debt and get it back.

Nonsense and presidential jet

tutudesz:
Just imagine They should take Ogun State property or the state

If Okonjo Iweala is in fact responsible for this idea, and Buhari implemented it, then this makes it all the more beautiful. Rather than have the people of Ogun suffer it alone, the FG should as well. Great idea!

Ogun state don run FG street 😂

Tinubu is a disaster. Yorub@s should stop supporting fraud else the Chinese will seize Nigeria one day.

Meanwhile, if FG is ready to get back their jets, they should pay APC online supporters to go and protest in China

More still, they can use their corruption to bribe the French courts

Damage control ,

if FG never nack you Lamba before oya raise ur hands✋

I will not talk too much, my advice for tinubu is to board commercial jet, just like other leaders who have been doing great for their country, may be he will be able to gather some gist from fellow passengers on how to better our country rather than flying in isolation. A problem shared is half solved. Sorry to all these yeye S A , and the likes, we need new innovations

The judge or whoever did that in error

Make una just dey play the fool think we are in Nigeria

These chinkos want presidential jets to even up for a state defaulting on some agreement somewhere. They will demand the whole of Africa if one country should default their loan then.

shortgun:
Tinubu keeps embarrassing Nigerians all over the world and bringing disrespect to the office of the president.
Never again will a charlatan occupy the office of the president in this country.

Gbam!

how do 3 Presidential jets stay in France?
They might claim it's for maintenance, but how can you take 3 jets for maintenance once?
We just dey do things like craze people.
no proper management.
no detailed guidance to follow on the use of public property.
during Buhari's regime, his daughter took the presidential jet on private business.
all this sometimes makes you want to cry.
A friend of mine who has a company car tells me the guidelines for car usage and you can tell it's serious business.
it has a strict allowance for its usage.
Also, my friend lives in Sangotedo.
office is in V.I.
company car must not cross VGC, yes, it has a map of places it can and can't go.
So my friend can't even take it home.
that's how it should be.
There should be proper guidance on the usage before purchase.
There should be a provision for the maintenance schedule and how it should be done... maybe the first option should be the Nigerian airforce engineer or stuff like that.
But every thing an jaga jaga.

PlayMaker14:
Oni Gbesé, go and pay your debts and retrieve your aircraft, stop barking from the Villa.


Shebi wen Eyes blind, mirror go rest.

Which debt?

It is an issue of a contract that wasn't honoured for whatever reason(s). Until the reason for the cancellation is made public, no kangaroo judgement can be made on the matter. No surprise at all that the case was thrown out in the UK and US.

For a company to think of seizing a presidential jet then the whole china government can decide to seize this country to pay off debt . This is insulting and shameful, and a politician somewhere is having $69b in his account from oil fraud that can pay off the nation’s debt
Anyways
God just have mercy on this country please

No be state government property na..... I saw some idiots rejoicing in d morning.... It's a very simple case d federal government can easily appeal and win

Alright.