Admin l Friday, October 22, 2021
LAGOS, Nigeria – Chief Judge of Lagos state, Justice Kazeem Alogba, has set up a disciplinary committee to unravel the mystery surrounding how a bullet-proof Nissan Maxima (3.5SE) with registration No BQ 775 AGL retrieved from the judgment debtor in the suit no. MIK/22/19/11, between Lati Gomes and Princess Bola Jegede got missing.
The committee was set up following a petition written by Princess Bola Jegede, Proprietress of A-Z International College. The then Head of Deputy Sheriff Section, Lagos, Mrs Julie Abieyuwa Anabor, who is now a judge at the Code of Conduct Tribunal had on March 28, 2013, executed the judgment against the debtor pursuant to judgment delivered on June 28, 2012.
Executing the judgment, Justice Anabor impounded two Toyota Hummer school bus and a bullet proof Nissan Maxima. The Proprietress in series of letter written to the present Chief judge, stated that the parties had since settle their differences as the judgment creditor and debtor have compromised their position.
Judgment debtor had asked the Deputy Registrar to release the properties as stated in the attached copy of inventory and release same to the rightful owner in compliance with the order of the court.
The Chief Magistrate F. A. Azeez had in a suit delivered judgment over rent of property between the trustees of the estate of honourable Justice T.S Gomes and Princess Bola Jegede wherein the court ordered the defendant to pay the sum of N9 million as arrears of rent from January 2005 to 2008 and January 2009 to 2010.
Failure of the defendant to pay the debt led to the execution of the Judgment, before both parties settled the rift. However, the then Deputy Sheriff, Mrs Julie Abieyuwa Anabor, who is now a Judge of Code of Conduct Tribunal had release the two school buses with registration no UF 129 KJA and UF 128 KJA but refused to release the Nissan Maxima (3.5SE) with registration no BQ775 AGL.
The School Proprietress, through his lawyer, Mr Yemi Omodele in a letter dated October 14, 2020 urged the Deputy Sheriff to release the remaining one vehicle, Nissan Maxima car in the interest of justice as the last hope of common man.
However, investigation revealed that Mrs Julie Anabor the Head of Deputy Sheriff (as at then) authorised the release of the bullet proof vehicle from the Strabag warehouse, Ikeja but how it got missing in the process is now the issue before the panel set up by the Hon. Chief Judge of Lagos Hon Justice Kazeem Alogba .
