The Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has written to the House Committee on Customs & Excise, Senate President and the Comptroller General of Customs, asking them to stop dealing with the Tony Iju-led national executive of the association due to a court order restraining them from parading themselves as representatives of the association.
According to a letter dated October 11, 2021, which was addressed to the Chairman, House Committee on Customs & Excise and copies made available to newsmen recently, the trustees, through their legal representative, Afe Babalola & Co, stated that, “We are solicitors to the Registered Trustees of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) hereinafter called our clients and on their behalf and instructions we write this letter.
“Consequent to internal leadership dispute in the Association, Suit No: FHC/L/CS/921/2020 — Obokun Freight Forwarders & 3 Ors v Reg. Trustees of Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) & 29 Ors was filed at the Federal High Court Ikoyi Lagos.
“On August 26, 2020, Hon Justice Aikawa of the Federal High Court, Lagos made an order restraining the 9th to 30th defendants from parading themselves, their agents or privies as national officers of ANLCA and from writing letters or signing documents in the same capacity. The said order has been duly served on all parties. Please find attached a copy of the order of court.
“However, in defiance of the order, Mr. Tony Iju Nwabumke (10th defendant), Mr. Kayode Farinto (12th defendant), Mr. Mukhaila Babatunde (14th defendant) and Hajia Bola Muse (18th defendant) have continued parading themselves as national president, vice-president, secretary and financial secretary of the Association, respectively and have been attending meetings with your office as well as other offices on issues affecting ANCLA.
“The position of the law is that once a case is filed, partes should not engage in any act that can prejudice the decision of the court or bring the judicial process into public ridicule and when a court order is made by a court, parties must comply with the order till the said order is appealed and upturned by appellate court. In the instance case, the court order is still subsisting and parties must comply with it
“It is wrong for the restrained persons to continue to parade themselves and take actions as national officers of ANLCA when the court has ordered them not to do so.
“The Supreme Court in F-A.T.B. v. EZEGBU (1992) 9 NWLR (PT 264) 182 put the law in plain terms when the apex court held that: ‘It is the unqualified obligation of every person against or in respect of whom an order has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction, to obey it, unless the order is discharged’.
“We implore your office not to indulge persons acting in flagrant disregard of subsisting order of the court and refuse to deal with anyone purporting to be a national officer of ANLCA.
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