An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure has restrained the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) from disconnecting electricity at the state-owned University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Ondo, over alleged indebtedness.
It also stopped the BEDC from tampering with the cable that supplied electricity to the hospital.
Justice B J Akinwumi granted the ex-parte order in a suit filed by the hospital through its counsel, Iyiola Afolabi.
The hospital dragged BEDC to court over fear of disconnection of its power owing to alleged indebtedness.
It prayed for “An Order of interim injunction restraining the Defendant, its agents, servants, privies staff or officers or anybody claiming through or for the Defendant from disconnecting or threatening to disconnect electricity supply to the claimant pending the determination of the Motion on Notice.”
The motion was brought under order 20 Rule 1 (1) and (2), Rule 15 of the Ondo State High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2019 and under the inherent jurisdiction of the Honourable Court.
Justice Akinwumi in his order after reading affidavits that accompanied the motion.
No date has, however, been fixed for the hearing due to ongoing courts’ vacation.