Two daughters of the
late publisher of the Guardian newspaper, Mr. Alex Ibru have dragged
his widow, Mrs. Maiden Ibru, and seven of their father’s investment
companies before a federal high court in Abuja.
The daughters, Ms. Grace
Ibru and Ms. Mabel Ibru, are praying for an order directing the Court
Registrar to take over the management of the assets of late
billionaire’s four investment companies, namely: Alurum Investment
Ltd, Oma Investment Ltd, DadIfol Ltd and RFC ltd.
They stated in a
54-paragraph petition that Maiden Ibru and her brother, Alexander
Thomopulos who are not shareholders in any of Alex Ibru’s investments
have become parasites and impostors on the deceased’s investment and
estate.
In the suit marked
FHC/ABJ/PET/17/14, dated December 9, 2014 and filed on behalf of the
plaintiffs by their counsel, Ahmed Raji (SAN), the daughters held that
their father died on 21 November 2011, leaving wills dated 22nd May,
1989 and another dated July 6, 1992 and that Omano Trust under Part C of
the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), of which they are
co-trustees, is third will of their late father dated September 8,
2011,the executor of the purported.
The petitioners said
Mrs. Maiden Ibru and her brother have been unlawfully representing and
holding out themselves as agent, representatives and the alter ego of
the late Alex Ibru’s investments as they claim that the restraining
order of the court did not cover the late Ibru’s corporate assets.
They said that Mrs.
Maiden Ibru’s ultimate ambition is to unlawfully ride on Alex Ibru’s
estate companies to become the Chairman of Ikeja Hotels Plc and
thereby consolidate her position as a “de facto and maximum
controller” of Alex Ibru’s estate and to finally dissipate them to the
total exclusion of all the beneficiaries of Alex Ibru’s will, including
the first three children of Alex Ibru, born by his first wife.
They prayed the court
for an order restraining Ibru’s investment Companies from selling,
mortgaging or otherwise disposing of any of its properties and assets,
movable and immovable, pending the final determination of the cases as
well as restraining the respondents from causing any of their records
with the CAC to be changed or altered.
culled : Daily Times
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