A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the African Petroleum Plc from suspending the company’s Secretary,Elizabeth Idigbe.
In a ruling, Justice Okechukwu Okeke held that Idigbe should remain African Petroleum’s Secretary and Legal Adviser pending the determination of a suit she filed on her suspension.
The judge ruled on a motion ex-parte filed by Idigbe on July nine.
The plaintiff filed the ex parte application along with a substantive suit over her suspension.
Okeke also restrained the African Petroleum, its Chairman of Board of Directors,Femi Otedola and the company’s agents from taking further steps regarding Idigbe’s suspension.
The court, however, directed Idigbe to write an undertaking to pay damages if the court discovered that it ought not to have made the ex-parte order.
In the suit, Idigbe prayed the court to order the African Petroleum to deposit her entitlements until retirement in 2026 in an interest yielding account pending the determination of the suit.
She claimed that the entitlements were N728, 626, 773.04k.
The plaintiff urged the court to compel the African Petroleum to deposit the sum in the name of the chief registrar of the court within 30 days of the service of the order.
Hearing in the substantive suit will begin on July twenty-six.
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