Three firms sue another over alleged debt

Three haulage companies, have filed three different suits against Murphy Express Logistics Limited before a Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, claiming various sums of money as payment for services rendered for which they have not been paid.The haulage firms are Kobbs Global Services Nigeria Limited, BJA Global Solutions Limited and Minmax Universal Concept Limited.
   
Kobbs is claiming N18.174million, being the total sum owed by the defendant to the claimant by virtue of trucking services rendered by the claimant to the defendant at the instance of the defendant and 10 percent post-judgment interest sums representing 10 percent interest on the judgment sum until it is paid up.
 
BJA is claiming N11.179m being the total sum owed by the defendant to the claimant by virtue of trucking services rendered by the claimant to the defendant at the instance of the defendant and 10 percent post-judgment interest sums representing 10 percent interest on the judgment sum until it is paid up.Minmax is claiming N18.126m being the total sum owed by the defendant to the claimant by virtue of trucking services rendered by the claimant to the defendant at the instance of the defendant and 10 percent post-judgment interest sums representing 10 percent interest on the judgment sum until it is paid up.

He swore that they have made several demands on the firm to pay the sums owed and that it was upon their consistent refusal to pay that they briefed their solicitors, Messrs. Owubokiri & Co., to write a letter demanding the sums owed.
   
“Our solicitors wrote a letter dated July 31, 2017 to them through the services of DHL Courier Service and that they duly received same. ‎The defendants wrote response to our letter in the letter head of a sister company, Murphy Shipping & Commercial Services Limited in which they committed getting back to our solicitors on or before the 13th day of September 2017.
   
“We have waited out the September 13, without hearing from the defendant or their solicitors even though we sensed that their demand to engage us on or before September 13, 2017 was a ploy to waste our time unduly,” he averred, adding that they have no defence for the suit.