Justice Ibrahim Buba nullifies EMTS board
Success Nnaji
Federal High Court in Lagos under the authority of
Justice Ibrahim Buba has nullified the appointment of an interim board for
Emerging Markets Telecommunications Service (EMTS), owners of 9mobile in
Nigeria.
He Give his ruling on recently in an application by
a firm, Spectrum Wireless Communication Ltd, which claimed it invested $35
million in EMTS/Etisalat in 2009.
United Capital, the umbrella body of all the 13
banks being owed $1.2 billion by 9mobile, is expected to file an appeal against
the court’s verdict,
The ruling may have put the ongoing sale process of
9mobile to preferred bidder or investor in shambles as one of the investors,
Spectrum Wireless (SW), has now issued a “buyers beware” notice to potential
investors.
Spectrum Wireless is one of the non-bank investors
of EMTS when the latter started operations in Nigeria in 2009 and put a $35
million investment in the then Etisalat.

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