The Federal High Court, Lagos, has refused to hear Shoprite Checkers (PYT) application, which seeks to lift injunctions restraining it from moving out of the country, over alleged debt of $47 million.
Justice Nicholas Oweibo, on September 1, refused to hear same application brought to him by Shoprite’s counsel, Mrs. Funke Adekoya (SAN), saying there was no urgency to the application.
The hearing was resumed on Monday, and another lawyer by the name, Adedapo Tunde Olowu, appeared for Shoprite’s Chekers (PYT), seeking to vacate the earlier order of the court, with an exparte application.
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Adedapo told the court that the order sought in the exparte motion was urgent, as the restraining injunction has crippled the business. In addition to this, Adedapo told the court that since the jdugement creditor, A.L.C Nigera Limited got the injunction by exparte, that was the reasons its client approached the court in such manner.
In response to all this, Justice Oweibo said: “I have gone through the exparte application, attached exhibits and the written address.
“In my view, there is no existence urgency to hear the application. Consequently, this application is hereby refused.Recall that Justice Muhammad Liman of the same court had sometimes in July stopped Shoprite Checker (PYT) from exiting the country over alleged $47 million USD debt.”
