Over a hundred guest were reportedly evicted from the Best Western Hotel in Ikeja Lagos as AMCON, supported by heavily armed mobile police...
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Over a hundred guest were reportedly evicted from the Best Western Hotel
in Ikeja Lagos as AMCON, supported by heavily armed mobile policemen,
took over the hotel.
The Sun Newspaper reports that the incident, which is likely to cost
over 400 jobs, started at about 4 am, about 112 local and foreign guest
were driven out of the hotel.
From the sun
He explained
that AMCON representatives and Police officers, along with thugs
bombarded the said Company properties at NO 86, Opebi Road, Ikeja, No 12
Rev Ogunbiyi Street, GRA, Ikeja and 12 Allen Avenue, Ikeja all in Lagos
on 30th August 2017 in purported execution of the judgment of the
Honourable Court delivered on 30th May 2017.
Akinlade frowned that AMCON and their agents pad locked the hotel gates,
preventing guests from leaving, while some who were chased out were
left out of fears for their lives. “On 30th May, 2017 the Honourable
Court delivered a judgment directing the Police to protect AMCON in the
process of exercising its alleged right as a Mortgagee over our
Company’s properties situated at No 86 Opebi Road Ikeja, Lagos, NO 12,
Rev Ogunbiyi Street GRA I keja, Lagos and 12 Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos
and despite the fact that the Company is the owner of the said
properties and has been in actual possession of same for decades,
carrying out its lawful business on the said properties, the AMCON
knowing the interest of the company, fraudulently went behind the
Company to obtain the said judgment without joining our Company as a
party or giving any notice of the pendency of the suit to us.”
Akinlade stated that AMCON commenced suit in 2014 in the court, seeking
an order that it was entitled to recover the debts of the Company in the
sum of N15.3 billion for which the Company’s properties in above
mentioned locations were claimed to have be used as collaterals. “In a
well considered decision of the court, Idris dismissed the said suit
with the cost of N50, 000.00 awarded the AMCON, in favour of our company
and there was no appeal against the said final decision of the Court
till date, less than a year after the said order of dismissal, AMCON
commenced the current suit without joining our company.”
When contacted, Head Corporate Affairs of AMCON, Mr. Jude Nwauzor
confirmed the take over, pointing out that there was a court order given
early this month to that effect.
He claimed that Akinlade is indebted to AMCON and the matter has been in
court for some time before it was finally ruled in favour of AMCON to
take possession of the property. “The Truth is that he is owing AMCON
and the Court ruled in our favour to take possession of the property.
The process of taking over the hotel has been on for the past one week.
We wrote a notice of possession on the premises and he wiped it off.
And, each time we go there, Akinlade and his workers would always molest
our Officials. In fact, we expected him to be gentle enough to vacate
the premises peacefully because we did not want to create a scene,
considering that it is a hotel where people go. But when we saw that he
was not ready to vacate, we decided to force him out.”
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