Battle Over Legal Representation Stalls Hearing In E-Customs Concession Project Suit against FG

Hearing in the legal battle by the E-Customs HC Project Limited and Bionica Technologies, (West Africa) Limited against the Federal Government was on Tuesday stalled at the Federal High Court, Abuja over a dispute on legal representation.

The two aggrieved companies which instituted the suit against the government, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, and others had hitherto been represented by Ahmed Raji, SAN, to challenge alleged illegalities introduced into a concession agreement by the NCS under the former Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Ahmed Ali, rtd.