Bi-Courtney accuses FAAN of misinforming public

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Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, BASL, has accused Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, of misinforming the public with its claims that the suit it brought, seeing to restrain FAAN from interfering in its (BASL) hotel and conference centre projects had been dismissed.
Bi-Courtney in a statement, said "Two statements issued by  FAAN, have been brought to our attention.
In the first statement, FAAN claims that an action of ours seeking to restrain it from interfering with our hotel and conference centre projects has been dismissed. They have made the statement without showing a copy of the court ruling, the title of the case, or even the date it was delivered.
"This is a figment of FAAN’s imagination and it is consistent with its desire to misinform the public.
Our natural inclination is to ignore the ranting of FAAN. We are only constrained to respond because some unsuspecting members of the public can be misled by the statement, on the assumption that a public institution like FAAN should not deliberately distort the facts.
"For the avoidance of doubt, we are not in any way indebted to FAAN. On the contrary, FAAN is indebted to us. The Federal Government and its agencies, including FAAN, owe BASL over N132 billion in judgement debt. Our position has been confirmed by the Arbitral proceedings and also court judgements.
FAAN appealed against the court judgement and the appeal was dismissed. There is no court judgement or order against us. All the judgements and orders are against FAAN that solidly believes that it is above the law.
"FAAN’s actions are only comparable, in its depravity and falsehood to Nazi’s propaganda machine during the Second World War. To put a lie to FAAN’s propaganda, we quote from the judgement of the Federal High Court in Bi-Courtney vs. Attorney-General of the Federation, delivered on July 3, 2012, where the court stated as follows: “In the case before the court, we have seen gross, deliberate, calculated, heinous abuse of the court of law typified by the Federal Government of Nigeria, aided by the President, and assisted by the Minister charged with responsibility for aviation matters.”

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