Ongoing Moves To Send Seplat Frontman ABC Orjiakor To Prison Revealed



A company, AOS Orwell Limited, has initiated contempt proceedings against the Managing Director of Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, Dr. A.B.C. Orjiako, before the Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged
disobedience of a court order.
The presiding judge, Justice Hadiza Shagari, has fixed May 4, 2017 to hear the committal application.
The applicant, AOS Orwell Limited, is  praying the court to commit Orjiako “to prison and/or protective custody of any of the detaining security agencies or at any designated prison/reformatory centre in Nigeria’s territorial landscape until he purges himself of the contempt and majesty of this honourable court.”
In the Form 49 filed through its lawyer, Mr. Kunle Ogunba (SAN), AOS Orwell Limited accused Orjiako of “willfully disobeying” a November 8, 2016 order made by Justice Shagari in respect of a company, Shebah Exploration & Production Limited, to which Orjiako Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.
According to Ogunba, Justice Shagari had on November 8, 2016 made an interim order “restraining the directors, staff, management, employees, officers, agents, privies or any other persons whatsoever under the authority of Shebah Exploration & Production Limited from dealing or tampering with or dissipating the assets, funds, shares et al of the company pending the final determination of a suit marked FHC/L/CP/1227/2016 filed against the company.”
AOS Orwell Limited, which filed the suit against Shebah Exploration & Production Limited over an alleged indebtedness, is seeking an order liquidating Shebah Exploration & Production Limited and an order appointing a provisional liquidator to take over the company.
Ogunba, however, alleged that in spite of the court’s order, Orjiako went ahead to sell the shares of Shebah Exploration & Production Limited on January 6, 2017.
In a 22-paragraph affidavit filed in support of the Form 49, a lawyer from Ogunba’a chambers, Helen Atulukwu, averred that the law firm wrote to Orjiako on January 26, 2017 asking him to reverse the sale of the assets.
Atulukwu said rather than accede to the demand, Orjiako’s lawyer replied the law firm with a letter dated February 14, 2017 stating that “Shebah Exploration & Production Limited had no shares in Seplat and that Dr. Orjiako is at full liberty to deal with his shares or those of other companies he controls.”
Atulukwu stated, “While the cited person/ alleged contemnor flouted the orders of court, his correspondence of 14th February, 2017 is an affront and a serious challenge to the authority of this honourable court.
“The cited person has continued to flout and disobey subsisting orders of court made in this suit.
“The cited person is the Chairman/Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Shebah Exploration & Production Limited, hence there is an urgent need to lift the corporate veil of the company to adequately punish the cited person for flouting the orders of the honourable court.
“The cited person’s disobedience to the orders of court amounts to a contemptuous challenge of the integrity of this honourable court and an attempt to undermine the due administration of justice.”

Punch

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