‘Dirty’ Plea Bargain: Judge questions how N200m crude recovered from oil thieves was sold for N17m

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The judge also queried the conduct of the federal prosecutor for filing a 'dirty' plea bargain agreement which gave the oil thieves from whom the crude oil was recovered a soft-landing.

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The judge also queried the conduct of the federal prosecutor for filing a "dirty" plea bargain agreement which gave the oil thieves from whom the crude oil was recovered a soft-landing.A judge of the Federal High Court in the Warri Division, Delta State, has questioned how N200 million worth of crude oil recovered from some oil thieves was sold for N17 million

Delivering judgement in the case on November 24, 2021, the trial judge described the plea bargain agreement as “sordid, and morbid, very unpleasant and dirty.” The prosecution reported the execution of the court’s order in a six-paragraph affidavit filed in court on November 11, 2021, disclosing that the product, valued at N200 million as of 2015, was sold off in a public auction at N17 million.

Whether or not it was advertised, Mr Abang said: “though, it is not clear, I think the sale was carried out by private arrangement”. According to him, “many heads will roll” if he ordered an investigation. “But this is not the case before me,” he said. The questionable deal in the oil theft case came just some months after the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, touted his efforts at curbing the abuse of the plea bargain agreement process.“The plea bargain arrangement was well intended but it has been abused by the learned counsel for prosecution, in this case, O.E, Ohakwe,” he said.

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation subsequently took over the case and filed three charges dated April 8, 2016, against 13 suspects and proposed to call six witnesses to prove its case against them.

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