NPFL outfit Lobi Stars taken to court for hotel debt

Nigeria Skilled Soccer League, NPFL relegation strugglers, Lobi Stars of Makurdi is enmeshed in a authorized battle because the Benue State owned soccer membership has been dragged to court docket for alleged failure to pay lodge debt since 2020, it was gathered.

Lobi Stars, twelfth on the 2022 NPFL log and at present going through uncertainties over its league standing with 3 factors away from the hazard zone, is accused of not paying a complete sum of 5 Hundred and Sixteen Thousand (N516, 000) Naira solely as lodge payments in 2020 when its gamers lodged in Dozat Jen Villa, Makurdi.

Dozat Jen Villa supervisor, Emmanuel Idoga, on Wednesday dragged the administration of the Lobi Stars membership to Makurdi Higher Space Court docket to get his cash and in addition slammed over one million Naira damages on the struggling membership

Idoga who was represented by his lawyer, Unongo Unongo, averred earlier than the court docket that each one efforts to get better the cash failed.

His council mentioned the gamers lodged within the lodge between March 16 and March 17, 2020.

The counsel additional mentioned that three gamers of the crew additionally spent two months within the lodge with out making any cost.

He additional averred that he wrote collection of letters to the defendant.

”My consumer despatched the primary letter on June 29, 2021, however there was no response,” he mentioned.

Unongo additionally mentioned that in the course of the listening to, he’ll depend on the letter dated June 29, 2021, which was served on the defendant.

He urged the court docket to order the defendant to pay the N516,000.

NAN experiences that he additionally prayed for N1million as basic damages, N50,000 as submitting payment and any orders the court docket might deem match.The counsel alleged that the defendant was evading service and utilized for substituted service on the defendant.

The Justice of the Peace, Dooshima Ikpambese, in her ruling, ordered substituted service on the defendant.