Malabu: Anti-graft group threatens to sue Adoke over alleged defamation
HEDA claims that Mr Adoke s allegation that its chair, Mr Suraju, forged an email document tendered in a Milan court is defamatory.
An anti-corruption organisation,
Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), has given a former justice minister, Mohammed Adoke, two weeks to retract an allegation of forgery levelled against its chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju.
HEDA, in a statement signed by Mr Suraju, threatened to sue Mr Adoke in the United Kingdom should he fail to retract the forgery allegation.
The
threat comes on the heel of an earlier similar threat by the UK anti-corruption group, Corner House, which is HEDA’s partner in respect of the prosecution of Malabu scandal. The UK group threatened legal action in response to Mr Adoke’s petition to the police accusing Mr Suraju of forgery.
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HEDA gave Adoke and his lawyer two weeks to retract the statement of be taken to court in the United Kingdom.
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Nigeria s leading anti-corruption group, HEDA Resource Centre, has asked a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to retract his statement on the fraud associated with OPL 245 or be sued.
In a petition titled, “Defamation of Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju and HEDA Resource Centre,” the group said Adoke in collaboration with some lawyers is resorting to blackmail in order to subvert the lingering investigations of graft associated with OPL 245.
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by SaharaReporters, New York
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One of the leading anti-corruption groups in the UK, The Corner House has threatened legal action in response to a widely publicised complaint sent on behalf of former Nigeria’s Attorney General, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) to the Police Inspector-General that the Mutual Legal Assistance, (MLA) made by UK to Italy which aided his recent judgment in Milan, was forged.
Adoke had written a petition to the former IGP Mohammed Adamu, claiming that the legal instrument deployed to aid his conviction in Italy over the OPL 245 scam was forged by Corner House.
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A UK anti-corruption group, Corner House, has threatened legal action in response to a widely publicised complaint sent to Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police on behalf of former Nigerian Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke.
In the letter of complaint, Mr Adoke alleged “various acts of forgery” by “the parties responsible for the petition, investigations and commencement of the criminal trial at the court of Milan against the individuals/entities connected with the OPL 245 settlement agreement.”