A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the owners of 9Mobile Network, to pay the sum of Fifty-Five Billion Naira, Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six Million, Five Hundred and Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Nine Naira, Sixty Kobo, (N55,776,570,590,60), being owed to Keystone Bank Limited.
This was delivered by the judge of the court, Justice Yellin Bogoro.
The Keystone Bank Limited had through its counsel, Bode Olanipekun (SAN), accused Teleology Nigeria Limited of failure to service its loan facility. The bank had the company a loan facility with which it deployed towards financing its acquisition of strategic assets in Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Ltd., doing business as 9Mobile Network.
According to the Bank’s lawyer, Teleology failed despite the bank’s offer of restructuring the loan facility. “The company failed to meet various conditions precedent, operation conditions, transaction dynamics, as well as other conditions stated in the restructuring letter,” the lawyer said.
“Rather than receive payment on the defendant’s debt liabilities, the plaintiff received a presentation from a company called PAC Limited. Proposing amongst others, a debt sale and/or acquisition by Bankruptcy Remote Special Purpose Vehicle. In a proposed transaction structure akin to a conversion of the debt to equity without any immediate down-payment or repayment of the outstanding huge indebtedness of the defendant.”
However, counsel to Teleology Nigeria Limited, Michael Kaase Aôndoakaa (SAN), urged the court not to deliver judgment in favour of Keystone Bank .
He maintained that the Federal High Court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain matters relating to banker-customer relationship.
In his reaction, Olanipekun prayed the court to discountenanced Aôndoakaa’s submissions. He stated that there was no application for the arrest of the court’s judgement. Or an appeal against the order of the court, adjourning the matter for judgment.
Delivering its judgment, the court held that the defendant’s application was akin to an arrest of judgment. It maintained that the said procedure was incompatible with the proceedings before it.
While holding that the defendant had no defence to the action, Justice Bogoro entered judgment in favour of the Keystone Bank.
The court, therefore, ordered Teleology to pay the sum of sum of Fifty-five Billion Naira, Seven Hundred and Seventy-six Million, Five Hundred and Seven Thousand, Five Hundred and Nine Naira, Sixty Kobo. This is the outstanding debt from the loan facilities granted to the defendant.
source: NewsTelegraph
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