Reggae star Rita Murphy has filed a N102 million suit against telecommunication provider Airtel Nigeria Limited for alleged deductions for unsubscribed applications.
The suit was filed before Justice K.O. Dawodu.
Rita, a leading member of Survival True Reggae Band, apart from asking the court to award the sum of N102 million as general damage and cost of instituting the suit against Airtel Nigeria Limited, in her favour, is also asking the court to declare that all deductions made by Airtel Nigeria Limited from her airtime between 2018 and 2019, are illegal.
In her statement of claims filed before the court by her lawyer, Mrs. Godson Opara, Rita averred that sometime around April, 2018, she noticed that each time she recharged her phone with the Airtel network’s airtime, the airtime vanished.
She stated that sometimes in January, 2019, she was negotiating a business deal with a foreign music marketer who had offered to buy the exclusive marketing right of her music brand, which she had produced in large quantities in audio and video.
Mrs. Idowu Olowu and Miss Uche Nosa Meme, counsel representing Airtel Nigeria Limited and NCC respectively, told the court that they did not receive any application for mediation, hence they would been there.
Idowu and Meme asked the court for another date to file their responses to the claimant’s suit.
Justice Dawodu, ordered them to pay default fees before they can be granted audience in the suit.
She adjourned further hearing in the suit until April 24, 2020. (The Nation)
