Court orders new IMC to take over operations of Adamus Ghana Limited
An Accra High Court has ordered a five-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) to take over the operations of Adamus Ghana Limited.
Adamus Resources Limited is 90% owned by Adamus Australia whereas the federal government of Ghana owns the remaining 10% shares.
Nguvu Mining Limited registered in Mauritius and in the end personal by Angela List claims to have acquired the 90% shares within the Company purportedly from Adamus Australia as depicted by the purported settlement signed on November seventh, 2022 and exhibited by events within the ongoing case.
The share switch referred to above purports to make Nguvu Mining Limited the bulk shareholder (90%) of Adamus Resources Limited per particulars of the case.
The Defendants to the case have argued that Moses Kobina Bosompem has by no means lawfully been a director or officer of Adamus Australia on the time he presupposed to have signed that seventh November 2022 share switch settlement, which was accomplished two weeks earlier than the Supreme Court of Western Australia delivered its judgment in opposition to Angela List.
Angela List the CEO of the Company on the time introduced the case within the Name of Nguvu Mining and the Company earlier than the High Court, Accra (Commercial Division 7) on the eighth of February 2023 to hunt injunction reliefs to restrain Allan Morrison, who’s the only director and secretary of Adamus Australia, from holding conferences in his capability because the 90% majority shareholder consultant of the Company.
The case commenced after Allan Morrison and Adamus Australia revealed the twenty second November 2022 judgment of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in opposition to Angela List in Ghana saying that she had been eliminated as a director of the Company, following an Emergency General Meeting sanctioned by him.
Lawyers for Allan Morrison moderately efficiently secured a restraining order in opposition to Angela List and different administrators of the Company on the twenty seventh of July 2023, restraining them from having something to do with the Company till the ultimate willpower of the case.
The Court additionally ordered for a 5 member Interim Management Committee (IMC) to direct the administration workers of the Company.
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources complied with the orders of the Court to nominate Juliet Osei-Wusu (Mrs) as its consultant to the IMC on the fifth of October 2023. Mr. Morrison and Adamus Australia by a decision dated the twenty seventh of July 2023 appointed David Abini and Isaac Ackun because it representatives to the IMC.
Nguvu Mining refused to make their appointments to the IMC and resorted to problem conferences referred to as both by the federal government consultant or the Defendants representatives.
Following one other ruling of the High Court, Commercial Division 7 on the nineteenth of February 2024, Nguvu Mining Limited forfeited its rights to nominate a member to the IMC when it refused to take action by the twenty ninth of February 2024 and to have its appointee’s identify filed with the Registrar on the 4th of March 2024 as ordered by the Court. The Acting General Manager (GM) of the Company additionally forfeited his appointed to the IMC when he did not file his appointment with the Registrar of the Commercial Court on the 4th of March 2024.
The IMC held its maiden assembly on the seventh of March 2024 to nominate new attorneys for the Company on the time when no enchantment or problem had been made in opposition to the ruling of the nineteenth of February 2024.
The IMC has referred to as on the Acting GM to familiarize themselves with the operations of the Company and to place in place prudent measures for a brand new route.
The substantive matter is but to be heard, and till the ultimate judgment is delivered, the Company will likely be beneath the management of the Court imposed IMC.
However, the Defendants have expressed involved earlier than the Court by submitting a lot of Applications for Interlocutory Injunctions to make sure that gold mined by the Company are directed by members of the IMC for all income to be accounted for whiles members of the board remained restrained.
Surprisingly, on January 16, 2024 Angela List on behalf of her Company Nguvu Mining Limited, wrote to the Attorney General of Ghana to make a request for the AG to intervene within the ongoing litigation significantly to hunt the AG’s recommendation in respect of the pending functions for injunction earlier than the High Court, although the Government of Ghana is just not a celebration to the go well with.
A deputy AG at web page 3 of their response date the twenty second of January 2024 suggested Angela List and Nguvu Mining that the service of an utility for injunction on the Company is NOT an injunction in itself that restrains the Company, although the High Court is but to ship its ruling on the pending functions for injunction.
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