Process & Industrial Developments Limited has v with the contract on which it got a $9.5bn judgement against the country.
The company also alleged that the Federal Government is indiscriminately detaining people associated with the deal.
The company said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration continued to show no willingness to negotiate in good faith in order to find “a reasonable resolution to the debt.”
“As a result, P&ID will continue its efforts to identify and seize Nigerian assets to satisfy the debt as soon as possible,” it added.
P&ID, in a statement on Thursday, accused the Nigerian government of carrying out a targeted campaign of unlawful and illegal detentions aimed at innocent individuals associated with the company.
Andrew Stafford Q.C. of Kobre & Kim, which represents P&ID, said, “The Nigerian government, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is carrying out a targeted campaign of detentions aimed at individuals associated with P&ID and the US $9.6bn arbitration award P&ID has won against Nigeria.
“The detentions are illegal, and appear to be aimed at coercing false testimony to support Nigeria’s claim that P&ID’s award is a fraud. Nigeria’s Attorney General Abubakar Malami has acknowledged that his aim is to provoke global opposition against P&ID, by undertaking these attacks.
“P&ID calls on the government of Nigeria to accept its responsibilities under the law, and to cease the unlawful detentions.”
In 2012, P&ID took the government to arbitration over the failure of the deal in which the Nigerian government agreed to supply gas to a processing plant that the company would build and run.
The British firm, on August 16, 2019, won a $9.6bn UK court judgement against the Nigerian government over a failed gas deal signed in January 2010.
