Security firm sues Samona over Shs87m
What you need to know:
- The debt, Swatt claims, has occasioned the security company unprecedented losses and damage for which it holds Samona liable.
Court has given Samona Products 10 days within which it must defend itself against allegations of refusing to pay more than Shs87m.
Samona, a cosmetics manufacturing company, is alleged to have refused or ignored to pay Swatt Security Limited for security services offered.
According to documents filed before the Commercial Division of the High Court, Swatt claims that Samona procured it to provide security services for both its employees and properties but the cosmetics company has refused to meet its part of the bargain.
Court has thus, following filing of the case, given Samona 10 days within which it must file its defence, failure of which a judgment will be entered in absentia. Court documents indicate that Swatt entered into an agreement with Samona to secure its properties in Natete-Busega, Kampala against theft, burglary, malicious damage to property and all manner of criminal activity at an agreed sum.
However, documents indicate, Samona, at an unstated time, started to default on its monthly payments, leading to an accumulated payment of Shs26.4m. “We [Swatt] were compelled to instruct [our] lawyers to recover the said monies but Samona neglected to clear,” the documents read in part, noting that several reminders were ignored leading the sum to increase to about Shs87.6m.
The debt, Swatt claims, has occasioned the security company unprecedented losses and damage for which it holds Samona liable.
Therefore, the security firm is seeking for court intervention to order Samona to pay all monies due and the cost of the suit.
