Nigerian Firm, Agriconnekt Sues German Agency, Others For Alleged Breach Of Contract, Seeks $450,000 In Damages, ExpensesSpeaking on the issue that prompted the lawsuit, Iweh said in a statement made available to SaharaReporters that Agriconnekt was founded in 2019, but struggled to raise capital, and didn't begin operations until early 2020, just before the Covid-19.
He said when it was preparing to launch on a small scale, they saw an advert,"Call for solution" by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and European Commission , implemented by The Deutsche Ge Agriconnekt. The company applied and participated in a two-day hackathon, and was announced as one of the nine worldwide winners, and the only winner having Nigeria as a project region. He said the company was subsequently awarded a total of $758,000.
"We are so broken, and our dreams/visions shattered, but we had to put our pieces together to seek justice! After about a year plus of peaceful outreach to GIZ and Mercy Corps, of which they have refused to be fair and transparent, just last week as at when we were making this post, we filed a suit in a High Court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and duly served the defendants, with GIZ as first defendant, Mercy Corps as the second defendant, and Coamana Ltd as the third defendant with suit...
The court document continued: “ An Order compelling, the 1st and 2nd Defendants to pay to the claimant the sum of $352,000 as the solution provider from the phase one funds of €850,000 released by the defendant to be paid to the claimant which the 2nd defendant has refused to pay the claimant till date.
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