Managing Director MD, Obi Achara Nigeria Ltd. has dragged management of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital UCTH to court over non payment of N68m contract sum owed the contractor for construction of Isolation centre.
In suit No. HC/316/2020 between Obi Achara Nigeria Ltd as first claimant, Mr. Obi James Achara 2nd claimant and University of Calabar Teaching Hospital UCTH management Board and two others. In a Writ of Summons /Statement of Claim, the claimants stated that on November 15,20116 UCTH awarded the company a contract for the construction of a Centre for Emerging Pathogens Research and Management at the cost of N68,606,044.50 million naira only stressing that despite issuing an Interim Payment Certificate for the sum of N20,021,710,20, dated August 6,2017the defendants only paid N7m only as at the time of going to court.
The claimants are demanding the sum of N56,298,912.72ndem million as outstanding sum owed the claimants by the defendants; N3.430,302,225 million as payment of five per cent retention fee; N100 million as general damages and N5 million being the cost of the suit.