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A staff of the MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, Mr Lucky Ibomhen has accused his employer of reneging on a decision to engage in arbitration through an order of the court as requested by the company since April 2022 over a suit he instituted against the company and that since then, the company seemed to have abandoned the process.
Ibomhen has also sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in suit No FHC/B/CS/14/2022 demanding compensation for himself and another over allegation of the anti-graft agency infringing on their fundamental human rights as a result of the dispute.
Justice Helen Courage-Ogbebor of Edo State High Court had on April 1, 2022 in the suit No B/77/2021 between Lucky Ibomhen (Claimant) and MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, Esomchukwu Obumnene and Yusuf Balogun (defendants) gave an order of stay of proceedings as a result of an application by the defendants for the parties to “submit themselves to arbitration as provided in clause 26 of the agreement entered into by parties and which the claimant claims it still subsists.”
But in a letter to the chairman Board of Directors of the company by Ibomhen’s counsel, M.O. Iguodala complained that since the order of the court for them to go for arbitration, the company has not reached them again even after they were the ones that requested for the arbitration.
The letter read in part “We are however peeved that your corporate outfit till now has not taken steps to set in motion the necessary machinery to activate the constitution of the arbitrators that will preside over the arbitration proceedings in line with the provisions of the extant Arbitration and Reconciliation Act.
“We believe that the board is fully aware of this matter, armed with our innocent belief, we decided to let the board know that time is of the essence in this matter, so that a timeous resolution can be achieved soonest.
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