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Monday, November 18, 2019 / 08:19AM
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Mastercard
and her agents have been told to stop issuing the National Identity card by
Justice R.M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos.
This order
was made following an exparte motion filed by Chams Plc and Chams Consortium
Limited (CCL) on August 28, 2019; versus Mastercard, NIMC and twenty-two
(22) Banks.
The exparte
which also include an Anton Pillar order was issued on November 7, 2019.
In their Statement of Claim they are asking Mastercard to pay the sum of 114
billion naira (N114B) for damages.
Other
defendants in the case include the President & Chief Executive Mastercard
international, Ajay Banga; Country Representative of Mastercard in Nigeria,
Omokehinde Ojomuyide; staff of Mastercard, Daniel Monehin; the National
Identity Management Commission (NIMC), and 22 commercial banks as respondents.
The order of the court states inter alia, "An order of interim injunction restraining the defendants, whether acting by themselves or by their directors, officers, servants, agents, technical managers, or otherwise however from further manufacturing, producing, designing and or printing or authorizing the manufacturing, production, designing and or printing of any National Identity Card with MasterCard logo as described in paragraph 16 of the supporting affidavit in Exhibit CC9 pending the determination of the motion on notice filed for hearing,"
Similar
order was given to 22 respondent banks in Nigeria restraining them from
honouring or giving effect to any transaction from Mastercard.
The Anton
Pillar Order has empowered the prosecuting solicitor Kemi Pinheiro SAN of
Pinheiro LP, Inspector General of Police (IG) or any senior police officer not
below the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police to search any of their
premises, take into possession and remove any document relating to the said
affidavit.
They are
also empowered to inspect, take pictures or arrest any body found to be
contravening the orders of the court.
A breakdown
of the Statement of Claim shows that 84 billion naira is for special damages as
a result of loss of expected revenue for 8 years, 10 billion naira for general
damages of fraud perpetrated jointly and severally against the claimants and 20
billion naira for inducing the breach and termination of the Concessions
awarded to the Claimants by 3rd Defendant which occurred as a result of the 1st
and 2nd Defendants' fraudulent actions.
It will be
recalled that in 2006, Chams was invited by the Federal Government to bid for
the National ID project.
It competed
and emerged the preferred bidder for the Nigeria National Identity Card (NIC)
concession.
Before and
upon the execution of a concession agreement with the National Identity
Management Commission (NIMC), Chams Plc pursued the implementation of the NIC
concession by incorporating ChamsConsortium Limited (CCL), a Special Purpose
Vehicle (SPV) with the sole purpose of implementing the NIC concession.
Chams Plc
also invited MasterCard to work with the ChamsConsortium as one of its
technical partners on the NIC concession.
Surprisingly
and to the disappointment of Chams and other stakeholders, MasterCard went on
to collude with others using technical information and design shared with them
by Chams to frustrate the concession won by Chams and the more than US$100m
Chams/CCL invested in the project.
In an open
letter published earlier in the year to the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chams PLC and CCL asked MasterCard to accept wrong
doing, apologise for the breach of contract and pay compensation to CCL and
Chams Plc for their more than US$100m Investment and accumulated losses.
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The post Chams Vs Mastercard, NIMC
And 22 Banks: Court Stops Issuing Of National Identity Card first appeared in Techeconomy on
Sunday, November 17, 2019.
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