Justice Inyang Ekwo of the
Federal High Court Abuja on Thursday granted DAAR Communications Plc and the
National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) leave to settle their dispute out of
court.
DAAR Communications, owners of
AIT and RayPower FM, had prayed the court to restrain the NBC from interfering
in its operations pending the determination of the motion on interlocutory
injunctions filed in court.
Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR
Communications Plc, filed the motion after the NBC suspended the operating licences
of its Africa Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM.
The judge granted the leave for
the out of court settlement after Mr Maliki Sylvanus, holding brief for Chief
Mike Ozekhome, SAN, counsel to Dokpesi, made an oral application.
The matter was slated for hearing
before Sylvanus informed the court that parties in the proceedings were engaged
in talks with the aim of amicably settling the matter out of court.
He said in view of this, he
called on the court to avail them with a date for parties to report the
settlement to the court.
The defence counsel, in the
matter, did not raise any objection to the application for settlement.
Justice Ekwo then adjourned until
June 26 for report on settlement, NAN reports.
Recall that the NBC had on June 6
suspended the operating licences of DAAR Communications Plc until further
notice.
Modibbo Kawu, director-general of
NBC, announced the shut down while addressing newsmen in Abuja.
He said the action was taken due
to the failure of the stations to abide by the broadcasting code.
“Today , June 6, AIT/Rapower
embarked on use of inflammatory, divisive, inciting broadcasts, and media
propaganda against the government and, the NBC for performing its statutory
functions of regulating the broadcast industry in Nigeria.
“Consequently, after several
meetings with management of Daar Communications Plc and many letters of
warning.
”The NBC, today took a decision
to suspend the licence of Daar Communications Plc for failure to abide by the
Commission’s directives, the provisions of the NBC Act Cap N11. The SHUT DOWN
order is until further notice,” he said.
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