Plane seized: Minister Tinubu says Nigeria working to resolve dispute with Chinese firm

Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on Friday the Federal Government was working to resolve its dispute with Chinese company Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment.

The company on Thursday seized a Dassault Falcon 7X, a Boeing 737-7N6/BBJ, and an Airbus A330-243 belonging to the Federal Government stationed at Paris-Le Bourget and Basel-Mulhouse airports in France.

This follows a Paris court order on a contract dispute between the Ogun State government and Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Company Limited.

On Friday, the company released one of three aircraft to allow President Bola Tinubu to use it on his trip to France.

The president is expected to meet his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris in the coming days.

Tuggar, who spoke to reporters in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, said he had engaged the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, on the matter.

He said: “This is part of the problem when subnational actors like state governments take the initiative to make agreements, to make international arrangements, without asking the State Department for help, without asking the federal government for help, and then when things get messy, we are faced with a problem that we have to deal with.

“Therefore, it is very important to always register such arrangements with the mission there, with the embassy, ​​with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and with the federal government.”

“This is something that Ogun State did under a different government, not this governor, that we don’t know about. What we do know is that they are targeting Nigerian assets.”

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