A. FATAYI-WILLIAMS, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The defendants, an electronics and telecommunications Company, by letter dated 29th February, 1968, written as a follow-up to an earlier letter dated 22nd February, 1968, (Ex. 31) submitted to the Deputy Director, Department of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Lagos, quotations in respect of multi-channel radio-telephone links which the Ministry proposed to install between Lagos and Calabar and between Ogoja and Calabar, and also in respect of a proposed low-power SSB point-to-point simplex radio telephone over the same paths. The contents of the letter (Ex. 8) read:
"We have the pleasure to refer to our enquiries of last month and submit as per attached QUOTATIONS Schedules our quotations in respect of the proposed multi-channel radio-telephone links between Lagos and Calabar or between Ogoja and Calabar and also in respect of the proposed low-power SSB point-to-point simplex radio-telephone over t…