Nigeria, Nov. 11 -- Lawyers to the petitioner in the alleged N170 million contract fraud against top officials of Zinox Technologies Limited and its subsidiary, Technology Distributions Limited, have again cried out against alleged attempts to compromise the trial of the accused.

The case is becoming a litmus test for the anti-corruption posture of the present administration, as the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has already described it as "very complicated owing to undue interference in investigation and prosecution."

In a protest letter to the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Bob James of Bob James & Co., counsel to the petitioners, Citadel Oracle Concept Limited and its managing director, Joseph Benjamin, accused...