Business woman appeals to Uba Sani over unpaid contract debts

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

An indigenous company, Messrs Bolanle Ogundele Ventures Kaduna, has appealed to the Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, to come to its aid and intervene in a debit case between the company the state major contracting company.

Chief Executive of the company, Mrs Bolanle Ogundele, who made the appeal during a press conference in Kaduna on Sunday, alleged that the State major contracting company, Messrs Ronchess Global Resources Limited, has refused to pay Messrs Bolanle Ogundele Ventures the sum of over N14million (fourteen million)

Naira owed the company for the supply of materials since June 2022, despite repeated demands.

According to her, Messrs Bolanle Ogundele Ventures supplied to Messrs Ronchess Global Resources Limited, through a purchasing order materials worth over N14 million Naira since last year and the money has not been paid.

The materials which included sharp sand, hard core granites and stone base were supplied to Messrs Ronchess Global Resources Limited and confirmed by it.

She further explained that the alleged refusal of Messrs Ronchess Global Resources Limited, to settle the debts has exposed Messrs Bolanle Ogundele Ventures to ridicule from those it collected the materials on credit to carry out the supply, due to it failure to pay the money for the aforementioned materials.

“Messrs Bolanle Ogundele Ventures are one of the suppliers in the ongoing project titled: Kaduna State Road Agency (KADRA) Urban Renewal Road Project. “The company supplied for Zaria, Danbushia and Sultan road projects respectively,” she explained.

Ogundele said, although, she instituted a civil case before a court to retrieve the money, but up till the time of the press conference, nothing came out of it, alleging that ‘It is because I am a woman’, or an attempt to frustrate her efforts,” she lamented.

She added that Messrs Ronchess Global

Resources Limited paid Messrs Bolanle Ogundele Ventures some amount of money in April 2022 and up till now, nothing has been paid again.

“Last payment date was April 15, 2022, with some amount left unpaid of an invoice dated 23 March, 2022, and we commenced new supply between 22 April, 2022 and 25 May, 2022, and up till date no payment has been made,” she further stated.

When contacted, the Chief Executive Officer of Ronchess Global Resources Limited, Mr. Jackson Ukuevo, did not deny owing the contractor/supplier or not. He simply told our Reporter, the civil case is before a court.

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