NLNG wants NIMASA in prison
The gas company said the action of NIMASA amounted to contempt of court. A Lagos Federal High Court had granted an order restraining the AGF, NIMASA, Global West Vessel Specialists Nigeria Limited (GWVSNL) and other government agencies from further detaining or preventing the chartered vessels of the NLNG from carrying out import and export of […]
The gas company said the action of NIMASA amounted to contempt of court.
A Lagos Federal High Court had granted an order restraining the AGF, NIMASA, Global West Vessel Specialists Nigeria Limited (GWVSNL) and other government agencies from further detaining or preventing the chartered vessels of the NLNG from carrying out import and export of gas through the Bonny channel or elsewhere in Nigeria.
Presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Idris, said the order would subsist pending the hearing and determination of a motion on notice for interlocutory injunction filed by the NLNG.
According to the court processes, the NLNG’s motion ex parte was heard by Justice Mohammed on the June 18, 2013 and the judge, after satisfying himself of the urgency of the matter, granted all the reliefs sought by the NLNG and adjourned the suit for further hearing to July 4, 2013.
The NLNG maintained that the order of interim injunction granted by the court and the originating processes in the suit were served by the bailiffs of the court on the AGF and GWVSNL, which is an agent of NIMASA on June 20, 2013 and June 19, 2013, respectively.
The NLNG maintained that since the court made the order on June 18, 2013, the respondents have caused their agents, privies and other third parties, particularly NIMASA to brazenly disregard and flout the extant interim orders of the court.