The Federal High Court, presided over by Honourable Justice Aluko, has granted an utility 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 utility varieties half of proceedings in search of to find out whether or not the named people disobeyed an order of the courtroom 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 look earlier than the courtroom 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 employees took unlawful steps in an try and disobey the Order of Court.
The courtroom’s choice to grant substituted service gives a procedural step in the direction of bringing the discover to the eye of the people involved in accordance with the courtroom’s instructions.
Form 49 is a discover requiring an alleged contemnor to indicate trigger why an order of committal to jail shouldn’t be made in opposition to them for alleged disobedience of a courtroom 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).
