The Federal High Court, presided over by Honourable Justice Aluko, has granted an software by United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc for substituted service of Form 49 on administrators of Wempco named as alleged contemnors within the case of UBA v. Wempco.
The software kinds half of proceedings searching for to find out whether or not the named people disobeyed an order of the court docket and whether or not they need to be dedicated to jail for contempt.
The administrators named as alleged contemnors are Lewis Shui Ngor Tung, Phillip Shui Chei Tung, M.A. Ola Yusuf, Tung Lawrence Blake, Aali Aare Hadji Tokunbo, Paul Shui Po Tung, Tung Robert, C.L. Ip and Taiwo Alli.
In advancing the applying, counsel to UBA argued that service of Form 49 on the alleged contemnors was essential to allow them to seem earlier than the court docket and present trigger why an order of committal shouldn’t be made in opposition to them.
He additionally argued that the Directors of Wempco and a few members of workers took unlawful steps in an try to disobey the Order of Court.
The court docket’s resolution to grant substituted service supplies a procedural step in direction of bringing the discover to the eye of the people involved in accordance with the court docket’s instructions.
Form 49 is a discover requiring an alleged contemnor to point out trigger why an order of committal to jail shouldn’t be made in opposition to them for alleged disobedience of a court docket order.
The Federal High Court had earlier made an Order of Mareva Injunction and appointed a Receiver/Manager over some of the Assets of Wempco following the indebtedness of Wempco to UBA within the sum of N61,445,695,993.76 (Sixty One Billion 4Hundred and Forty-Five Million Six Hundred and Ninety Five Thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety Three Naira, Seventy Six Kobo).
