Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operators
of the domestic terminal of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA2), Ikeja, has
asked the Federal High Court Lagos to commit three top officials of the Federal
Airports Authority (FAAN) to jail for contempt of court.
Bi-Courtney’s application followed
the refusal of the officials, including its Managing Director, Mr. George
Uriesi, to comply with the orders of Justice Jona Adah, in the suit restraining
them from interfering with work on a four-star hotel and
conference centre, which the plaintiff is developing at the airport.
According to the application, others
against whom Bi-Courtney wants the order of contempt made include FAAN; the
authority’s Chief Security Officer, Col. C.L. Onalo and its General Manager,
Public Affairs, Mr. Yakubu Dati.
Bi-Courtney, according to (Form 49)
dated June 26, this year, claimed that the affected individuals willfully
violated the order of the court, which restrained them and their
representatives from “commencing, continuing and/or completing any actions or
permitting the commencement, continuance and/or completion of any actions in respect
of taking over possession of and/or interfering with the Applicant’s possession
of the Four Star Hotel and
Conference Centre situate at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal 2, Ikeja,
pending the hearing and determination of the Applicant’s application for
interlocutory injunction….”
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