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JOSEPH SHAGBAOR IKYEGH, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appeal is from the decision of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos (the Court below) by which it refused to set aside the garnishee order nisi for want of jurisdiction.
Put shortly, the 1st respondent obtained a judgment against the appellant for unascertained sum of money representing the arrear of salary and emoluments due and accruing to the 1st respondent from 27-04-1999. Pursuant to the judgment the 1st respondent secured a garnishee order nisi from the Court below attaching a sum of N51,170,000 purporting to be the judgment sum, said to be domiciled in the appellant's bank account with the two garnishees, the 2nd and 3rd respondents.
The appellant got notice of the garnishee order nisi and filed an application on notice seeking to discharge or set aside the garnishee order nisi for want of jurisdiction to issue same by the Court below. The central contention by the appellant at the Court below was that the jā¦