AGF asks Yar’Adua to stop Ibori’s trial in UK - Nigerian Tribune

THE Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Mike Aondoaka (SAN), has written President Umaru Yar’Adua, asking him to stop the ongoing money laundering trial of former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, in a London court.

The minister told the president that the trial was designed to hurt Nigeria’s image and its judicial system. If Ibori is culpable over the alleged crime, the AGF believed that Nigeria was the proper place to try him, with the glory of justice that would be done in the matter coming to the country.

He also told the president that after due consideration of a request made by one David M. Williams, Crown Prosecutor of the Fraud Prosecution Service in London, he found out that he was not the competent authority to make such a request that Ibori should be tried outside Nigeria.

He said based on the Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement between the two countries, the appropriate person to make the request was the Secretary of State for Home Department while the Attorney General and Minister of Justice could make the same on behalf of Nigerian.
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