A Federal High Court, Lagos, has restrained Mainstreet Bank Estate Company Limited, Charles Njoku and Bako Ishaku from intimidating or harassing the occupants of Milhills Schools Limited, Lagos.
The order, made on March 21, followed a motion ex-parte by the plaintiffs –Dr Valerie Samuel and the school, dated March 19.
The court, presided over by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, made an interim order directing the defendants to desist from assaulting or threatening the applicants through phone calls, letters and others means.
It further directed the defendants to desist from instigating the police to arrest, harass or threaten any parent of the children of Milhills Schools Limited, “for instance, Pastor Ndukwe Chinaka.”
The defendants were barred from disturbing the plaintiffs/applicants from operating the school’s accounts with Mainstreet Bank Limited, with account number 6500715180.
The judge directed that the plaintiffs/applicants give an undertaking as to damages should it turn out that the order ought not to have been made.
The plaintiffs, had, among others sought “an interim injunction directing the respondents herein, whether by themselves, their agents, servants, privies or otherwise howsoever to refrain from entering upon the premises of the applicants’ Milhills Schools and home at No. 3 Oduduwa Crescent, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State, for the purposes of assaulting, harassing, intimidating, molesting, embarrassing, threatening, trailing and/or in any other manner disturbing the peace and tranquility of the applicants and/or members of their family, staff and children of Milhills Schools.”
They prayed that the interim injunctions subsist pending the hearing and determination of the case.
Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia adjourned further proceedings till April 11.
Meanwhile, trial will begin in a related suit before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court Lagos, presided over by Magistrate A.A. Demi-Ajayi, on April 24.
