Nigeria: FG Insists On Trying Indicted Oil Marketers

6 September 2012

The federal government will not stop the trial of some of the oil marketers indicted by the Aig-Imoukhuede Committee set up to investigate fuel subsidy claims by the marketers currently standing trial in the Lagos High Court in Ikeja, Lagos.

There are speculations that the federal government, through the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), may stop the last four oil marketers the Aig-Imoukhuede Committee added to the list of indicted marketers, as their names are yet to be forwarded to the commission for arraignment. It is believed they have friends in high places.

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