* Blames NNPC for accident
By Alex Enumah
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday awarded the sum of N10.6 million damages in favour of a veteran journalist, Geoffrey Anika, in his suit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the construction of a concrete barrier that caused his accident.
The corporation had, in response to threat of attack by Boko Haram terrorists, erected concrete barricades on the highway leading to its headquarters in Abuja, without necessary road signs, which according to the plaintiff, resulted in a ghastly motor accident involving his Peugeot 406 with registration number DP 41 EKY in 2012.
Delivering judgment in the suit on Monday, Justice Babatunde Quadri agreed with the plaintiff that the NNPC was negligent in blocking the high way without necessary road signs as required by law.
The judge held that the evidence of the plaintiff’s witnesses that concrete barricades were placed on the…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
