Comedian Julius Agwu has dragged telecoms giant Etisalat to
court for blocking his business line. He is demanding for
N100million as compensation for jobs lost, contact lost, for the
inconveniences, and for being mistreated by Etisalat staff. Below is a
statement from his lawyer, Festus Keyamo...
We are
solicitors to Mr. Julius Agwu, one of Nigeria's most sought after entertainers
(hereinafter referred to as "our client") and on whose behalf we
write.
Our
client is the owner of the Etisalat GSM phone number 08189555555, which he uses
as his business line. On the 8th of October, 2013, our client travelled out of
the country and returned on the 17th of the same month. Upon his return, he
tried severally to make calls from the aforestated GSM line but same could not
connect. Not only could he not make calls, he also could not receive calls on
the said GSM line. This continued for some days until he got a message that his
line had been blocked by the network provider.
Sequel to the above message, our
client promptly visited your Abuja office at Hilton to report the matter. He
was attended to by one Miss Joan, who informed him that somebody swapped his
line. After our client successfully answered the security questions put to him,
he was informed that his line had been restored, but the credit balance on the
line was not returned.
Surprisingly, our client's
aforestated line was blocked again after he left your said Abuja office. Once
again our client visited your office at the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport Ikeja, Lagos to lodge a complaint, but painfully, nothing
was done about it.
However, after sometime, our
client was invited for a meeting at your head office in Lagos on the 14th of
November, 2013 which he duly honoured. Present at the meeting (in addition to
the officials of your organization) was Mr. Mobolaji Okusaga, the Managing
Director of The Quadrant Company, in his capacity as media agents/managers for
Etisalat Nigeria.
At the end of the meeting, our
client was told for the umpteenth time that they would get back to him, which
they again failed to do.
LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
It cannot be over emphasized that
your actions of unlawfully blocking and/or swapping our client's line
occasioned loss of business opportunities to him. As you are aware, our client
as one of the most sought after Nigerian entertainers needs his phone line to
be easily accessible to keep his business going. It therefore goes without
saying that our client has lost some business opportunities as a result of your
actions.
TAKE NOTICE that we have our
client's firm instruction to demand and hereby demand the sum of
N100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira) as compensation for the loss of
business opportunities and the inconvenience caused our client by reason of
your unlawful and unjustified blocking and/or swapping of our client's Etisalat
GSM phone line.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that in the
event that you fail, refuse or neglect to accede to our above stated demand
within seven (7) days from the receipt of this letter, we shall be compelled to
set in motion against you, all legal machineries necessary to obtain legal
remedy for our client.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
FESTUS KEYAMO, ESQ.
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