- Releases Certified True Copy (CTC) of judgment
Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe of the Ikeja Special Offences Court has expressed anger over a story credited to
her by some fake, over-ambitious online news platforms on the judgment she delivered recently.
Abike-Fadipe, who delivered a case involving Zenith Bank Plc, decided to release her original Certified True Copy (CTC) of her judgment to back her claims; insisting that what the online media platforms said she delivered, were all fake and wondered how and where they got their own reports.
“So, one wondered where these fake news platforms derived their stories from. The Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment is now in the open for anyone to see,” she fumed.
The online platforms had reported that Justice Abike-Fadipe accused Zenith Bank Plc of bribing both the judges and lawyers for 11 years to pervert justice, with several online media outlets alleging that she made the claim on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 while delivering judgment in a suit marked: LD/ADR/186/2014 between Real Integrated and Hospitality Limited as claimant and Zenith Bank Plc and State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB) as first and second defendants.
One such publication quoted the judge as saying: “My recommendation is that Zenith Bank is a fraud and people must be very careful in their dealings with the bank.” Some of the other quotes read: “Zenith Bank bribed the lawyers in the matter.
“This, they have done for 11 years. So many lawyers and judges have been bribed in this matter just perverting
justice. “What is more embarrassing, the current governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele,
was the one who came to navigate and begged for the deposit. He has not been able to do anything to Zenith Bank, because he was the Managing Director of the bank at the time of the transaction.”
However, nowhere in the CTC of the judgment made available to The Trumpet, showed that the judge did not make such statements. While the judge did make a scathing criticism of the bank, Justice Abike-Fadipe did not accuse Zenith bank of bribing judges and lawyers for 11 years to fraudulently alter the course of justice, as claimed by the online mediums.
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There was also no mention of Emefiele in the CTC of the judgment. The judge’s comments, as contained in the judgment, include: “That the first defendant has been the beneficiary of the malevolent game of chess it plunged both the claimant and the second defendant into, holding N872.7 million in its custody without paying interest thereon from February 17, 2011 to February 2, 2016.
“The Court ordered that the money be paid into an interest yielding account in the names of the claimant
and the second defendant pending determination of the suit, which order was varied by the consent of all the parties on September 20, 2016 so that the money remained in the first defendant’s custody without interest.
“That the act of the first defendant was unconscionable and detrimental to the goodwill of the claimant and its trade credit with its customers. It was a deliberate and malicious act against the interest of the claimant and the
first defendant continues to enjoy them largesse in bad faith. Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko
