By Trust Africa News
Spotlight learnt that it was Francis —the younger of the brother— who filed a petition at the Federal High Court in Lagos against his brother, Christian. He wants the court to determine how the school should be managed. He joined as respondents, in the suit Christian’s wife, Olufunke; Lekki British International High School Limited, Lekki British Junior School Limited and Lekki Educational Limited.
Late Laja who founded the schools died intestate on 26 May, 2019 at age 69. Before her death, she was the Chief Executive Officer of the Schools. Under her, the management and organisational structure of the schools was not in dispute as the schools ran smoothly. Upon her death, Francis and Christian became the only shareholders and directors of the schools and both were abroad at the time of her death.
But Francis averred that after the death of their mother, Christian unilaterally made the decision to relocate his family to Nigeria and immediately took over the running of the schools. He also claimed Christian equally appointed himself as the de facto Chief Executive Officer without informing or conferring with him and against his express objection. Aggrieved Francis claimed that their mother had mandated him, being a lawyer, to look for international investors who will run the school after her retirement, since both of them —Christian and himself— have no requisite experience or qualifications to run an educational institutions or a business the size of the schools without proper structures and process constituted. But when their mother died, Francis said he requested a meeting of the Board of Directors of the schools to discuss the implementation of appropriate legal framework to regulate the governance and the affairs of the schools.
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