Nigeria: Foolish French

13 February 2013
opinion

Over the weekend, a friend's Facebook post attracted my attention. it turned out a French judge had sentenced two former executhieves of the French engineering company Technip S.A. to various imprisonment terms.

This friend is no stakeholder in the French judiciary, so I took a closer look. Sadly enough, the two convicts were sentenced; as we would say in this land, for their 'alleged' roles in the infamous $180 million (N27 billion) Halliburton bribery scandal.

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