JUSTICE IN NIGERIA NOW
A cable recently released by Wikileaks paints a portrait of the extent to which powerful oil giant, Shell, was involved in the political schemes in Nigeria. The US ambassador routinely contacted Shell to discuss important political and economic developments in Nigeria.
In this cable, Shell executive, Ann Pickard, reveals that Umaru Yar’adua’s wife, Hajia Turai, his economic adviser, Tanimu Kurfi, and the former Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engr. Abubakar L. Yar ‘Ádua, were receiving bribes from companies lifting oil from Nigeria. SaharaReporters revealed these illicit activities in a report we did on Turai in 2008.
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