Rita Lori Ogbebor and other individuals have been brought before the Delta State High Court in Warri by multinational oil company Chevron Nigeria Limited in order to obtain a perpetual injunction, barring them from withdrawing or transferring money from the Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC, account held at one of the new generational banks, in accordance with a consent judgment.
Alero Tenumah, Aginejune Agbonekuya, Ebigbeyi Kennedy, Lori Omatie, Aburo Mene-Ejegi, Frank Aberuoluwa, Itse Orugbo, and Richard Omare are among the additional defendants who have joined the lawsuit as the second through tenth defendants, respectively.
The company claimed that the defendants withdrew N300 million from the IRDC’s bank account housed in the bank in violation of the GMOU as well as the purpose and regulations of the operation of the IRDC’s bank accounts purportedly as legal fee of the 1st -7th and the 9th-10th defendants.
