Grace Taiga, the former director of Legal Services of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, who was reportedly involved in the P&ID deal, is dead
Taiga was said to have died of kidney disease in September and was expected to be buried in Delta State in December
Judge Knowles in the United Kingdom earlier in the week ruled in favour of Nigeria, adding that the $11 billion P&ID deal was obtained through fraud
Asaba, Delta – Grace Taiga, the Nigerian who was accused of accepting bribes from the Process and Industrial Developments, P&ID, Limited, and a former director of Legal Services of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, is dead.
How Nigerian accused of collecting bribe in P&ID reportedly died
The report has it that she died of kidney disease in September 2023, and she would be buried in December in Delta State.
Taiga reportedly retired on September 1, 2010, after spending years of service with the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and Defence. Her name was widely mentioned in the verdict given by a London court which quashed an $11 billion awarded against Nigeria in a case filed by P&ID. According to Judge Knowles, the P&ID award was gotten through fraud, and it would not have happened in the case as against public opinion.
The P&ID was a failed 2010 deal for the development of a gas processing plant for the country, in which, Nigerian narrowly escaped from the hefty penalty that would have come with it.
The Commercial Courts of England and Wales halted enforcement of a $11 billion deal in favour of Nigeria and it was widely celebrated in the country earlier this week. Justice Knowles’ statement reads in part: “In the circumstances and for the reasons I have sought to describe and explain, Nigeria succeeds on its challenge under section 68. I have not accepted all of Nigeria’s allegations, but the awards were obtained by fraud and the way in which they were procured was contrary to public policy.”
