MTN Nigeria pays customer over illegal call credit deductions

MTN Nigeria has paid a customer USD$1 390,00 Oluwole Aluko, in compliance with a Federal High Court judgment. Aluko, a legal practitioner, sued the telecommunications company in 2016, alleging unlawful deduction of his call credit.

The judge, Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel, of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, had in 2017 entered judgment in favour of the claimant when there was no representation for MTN throughout the hearing period until the judgment day.

Abiola Olagunju and Fatiullah Tiamiyu later announced their representation for MTN, with an application asking the court to set aside its judgment against their client.

They had argued that the company’s legal department was never aware of the suit against the company before the court.

Aluko, however, presented before the court evidence of court summons served on the defendants with proof of receipt in a criminal contempt suit he instituted against the duo.

At the resumed hearing on Monday, 14 May 2018,  Aluko informed the court that MTN had paid him USD $1 390,00 in compliance with the court’s earlier order.

The judge, consequently, struck out the claimant’s suit of criminal contempt against MTN’s lawyers.

Edited by Fundisiwe Maseko
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