Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN has disclosed that the country cannot rule out the possibility of negotiations in the imbroglio between the Federal Government and Process and Industrial Development (P&ID).
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This was disclosed by the AGF during an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, 9th day of September, 2020.
The learned AGF disclosed that although judicial proceedings are ongoing but however, in the interest of the public, negotiations can not be ruled out.
“Generally speaking, when it comes to judicial proceedings or perhaps arbitral proceedings for that matter, one cannot rule wholeheartedly with clear finality, conclude that there should not be perhaps any room for the possibility of settlement.
“The settlement is indeed an attribute of arbitral and judicial proceedings so you cannot rule out the possibility. But then, where fraud, corruption, material misrepresentation compromises processes and procedures are an issue, I wonder at what point you can now submit to the settlement arrangement taking into consideration what responsibility we have as a nation of sustaining and upholding the public interest.
“So, in as much as I cannot rule out the possibility of a settlement being a natural attribute of arbitral and indeed judicial proceeding, the fact remains that where fraud, corruption, criminality, criminal conspiracy, material misrepresentation are concerned, it is indeed a tall order.”
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