South African Company Allegedly De-Frauds Nigerian Company Of $8000.

The Managing Director of Global Lifting Services Nigeria
Limited,Mr. Patrice Unogu, on Saturday said his company
which is based in Port Harcourt, is engaged in inspection of
lifting equipment, certification, training and supplies, paid
$8,000 to a firm that has since refused to execute the
contract given to it and has also disappeared. He added that
the Nigerian Consulate in South Africa was assisting to locate
a company.

According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Johannesburg, South Africa, Unogu said his firm was
introduced to the South African company based in
Johannesburg in 2012 to help produce a software.

He said: "We entered into a contractual agreement.They
gave us an agreement which we filled and paid them a
deposit sum of $8,000".

"When we started, they were responding and they were
sending samples of what they were doing and somewhere
along the line, they stopped".

"We tried pacifying them, after some time, they started
again, but thereafter, nothing happened again" he said.

Unogu said his firm then wrote the South African company
several letters and made several calls but got no response."

He added that the case was reported to the South African
Commercial Attached in Nigeria who advised him to write to
write to SA's High commissioner to Nigeria and copy him.

"Nigeria's Consul General in South Africa has taken up the
case and is assisting us to locate the company.
"My company has suffered losses worth more than $500,000
because of the non delivery of the software when it was
supposed to be delivered,“ he said.

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