Abuja The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has prevented the Federal government from assuming control over the residential wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos from its present administrator and supervisor, Bi-Courtney Limited.
Equity Binta Nyako had in an exparte request on Thursday further controlled the Federal government and its organizations from meddling or hampering the tasks of Bi-Courtney regarding its administration of the airplane terminal.
The Judge allowed the export movement in the wake of tuning in to Wale Babalakin, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) with that impact.
The court anyway said the interval request would subsist pending the assurance of the beginning summons documented by Bi-Courtney.
Direction to the candidate, Babalakin had told the court that there was data that the Federal Government, through a portion of its organizations, looks to repossess the household wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA2) inside the following two days.
He contended that in spite of the presence of proof to help Bi-Courtney’s case of a current 36-year concession contract among it and the Federal Government, in connection to the administration of the airplane terminal, authorities of the legislature have kept on demanding that the agreement was for a long time.
“We have a multi-year concession, which has been affirmed by an Arbitral Tribunal, and up to the Supreme Court.
In any case, there is talks that they (the litigants) need to assume control over the airplane terminal inside the following two days, because we have 12 years rent,” Babalakin said.
He at that point asked the court between time request directive to forestall the litigants and their limiting the respondents, either without anyone else or different organizations of Federal
Government of Nigeria or their specialists “from favoring the dominating or working the Domestic Wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA) pending the conference and assurance of the starting summons.
Babalakin similarly looked for conditional requests to control the respondents from intruding on the offended party’s administration of MMA, and for them to “keep up existing conditions and not meddle in the procedures.
As litigants in the suit stamped:
FHC/ABJ/CS/471/2019 is, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Minister of Aviation, Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission and the Inspector General of Police.
Bi-Courtney, in the beginning, summons, needs the court to, among others, proclaim that it is qualified for continuous activity and the executives of the residential wing of the MMA ”
All through the subsistence of the concession time frame allowed to the offended party by the concession understanding dated 24th April 2003 between the offended party and the Federal Republic of Nigeria, spoken to by the Minister of Aviation and FAAN, especially the addendum thereto, dated February 2007, without let or prevention” by the respondents and their operators.
