The Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) has ordered the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) to pay a subscriber to an aborted initial public offering (IPO), in a landmark judgment that places the burden of uncompleted transactions on the NDIC.

The IST ordered NDIC to pay Winners Medical Diagnostic and Research Institute Limited N5 million for the aborted share purchase transaction.

In addition, the NDIC is to pay N5 million at two per cent interest above the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) MRR from March 2006 when NDIC took over All States Trust Bank until the full payment of the principal sum.

The IST also awarded to Winners Medical Diagnostic and Research Institute, cost of N500,000 to be paid by NDIC. NDIC said it would instruct its solicitors to appeal the judgment to the Court of Appeal.

The case involved Winners Medical Diagnostic and Research Institute and eight others, including NDIC, in which Winners Medical Diagnostic and Research Institute bought 2.5 million shares in the 2005 IPO of the former All States Trust Bank Plc, now Ecobank Plc, at N2 per shares of 50 kobo each and paid N5 million.