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reports that a Federal High Court, Awka, Anambra state was last Thursday
stunned when a counsel to a plaintiff, Mr. Chike Onyali
told the court that his
client, one Chief Benjamin Nwizu, the Managing Director of D&K Golden City
Investment Ltd was being trailed and harassed by policemen attached to the
Lagos state Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to Anambra state.
Mr. Onyali who was addressing the
court on a case of contempt filed against a Federal Government agency, Standard
Organization of Nigeria (SON) revealed how some policemen and soldiers from an
undisclosed military formation were being used by Standard Organization of
Nigeria to patrol in front of the residence of his client at GRA, Onitsha in a
bid to silence him in a case he had brought against the defendant.
A Federal High Court, Awka had in
February, 2011 restrained the defendant, Standard Organization of Nigeria which
is a Federal Government regulatory body on fake and counterfeit products,
including the Inspector-General of Police or his agents from invading into the
premises or factory belonging to the plaintiff or carting away Dorco disposable
shaving stick razor.
But the 1st defendant, SON went
ahead and invaded the factory belonging to the plaintiff at Obosi near Onitsha,
including other warehouses and carted away cartoons of shaving sticks,
equipment and products worth over N1 Billion Naira.
The presiding Judge, Justice B.I.
Gafai, however, adjourned the case till 12th May 2015 when all the parties in
the matter are expected to have filed their applications.
Reacting to his client’s alleged
harassment by security agents, the counsel to the plaintiff, Mr. Chike Onyali
frowned at the rate in which SON was carrying out its statutory functions,
stressing that it was a ploy to kill local technology instead of assisting to
build local industries because of selfish agenda of a few individuals and
insisted on applying the rule of law to save his client’s business which has
employed about 200 Nigerians from collapsing.
“SON is not serving the interest of Nigerians,
but that of a few individuals. Despite the fact that an order was given by an
Onitsha Chief Magistrate Court to restore my client’s factory machines and his
seized products, the defendants are yet to do so. This is a deliberate
way of killing local technology out of personal greed of a few Nigerians in
positions of authority”.
Awka High court told SON is Frustrating Growth of Local Technology In Nigeria
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