Court set to sanction banks that don’t comply with court order on the Ajetunmobi’s firm

An Ikoyi division of the Lagos State high court has threatened to sanction bank executives who fail to release the amount to the credit of Bamise and Elizabeth Ajetunmobi, owners of Imagine Global Holding Company Ltd. and Imagine Global solution Ltd.

At the last adjourned date, the court had restrained commercial banks from releasing N11.79 billion funds to the couple. The judge also ordered banks to file and serve the amount on the applicants’ counsel, an affidavit disclosing the balance in the defendant account within seven days.

The presiding judge, Justice Toyin Oyekan-Abdullahi expressed displeasure at the conduct of banks who did not comply with the court order. She said, “The court will not allow the citizens of this country to keep weeping because of the absconding investors.”

At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, Justice Toyin noted that some banks are yet to comply with the court’s order made on October 20.

She threatened that, not only will she sanction bank executives who default the court’s order, but lawyers, who act contrary to the order of the court risk being sanctioned.

Mainstreet Capital Ltd through their lawyer filed an application seeking to join as co-claimant in the suit. But counsel to claimants opposed the application saying anyone with a grievance against the couple “should go and file his own case.”

Wema Bank was one of the affected companies which allegedly gave a loan to Imagine Global in September 2021, after accepting the Ajitunmobis properties as collateral. Wema Bank as an interested party filed an application seeking to discharge the order of the court.