Nigeria: Malabu Scandal - AGF Malami Writes Buhari, Wants Trial of Adoke, Diezani, Others Stopped - - Full Letter

18 February 2018

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to back off on his administration's legal battles against the principal actors in the controversial Malabu Oil deal.

The raging scandal over the OPL 245 oil block began in 2011 when the Goodluck Jonathan administration approved its purchase by Shell and Agip-Eni from Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd., a suspected briefcase firm with ties to Dan Etete, a convicted criminal who was Nigeria's petroleum minister from 1995 to 1998.

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