Amotoi Global Services, a surveillance security provider, has asked Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO) to retract a “damaging” statement against the firm or face legal action.
Aiteo is the operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited/Aiteo joint venture (JV) on oil mining lease (OML) 29.
On Monday, Aiteo said it terminated its surveillance contract with Amotoi over alleged fraud and criminal activities.
In a letter to Aiteo, Anthony Enyindah, counsel to Amotoi, said it is disturbing that the oil firm would make “such far-reaching, irresponsible, and potentially damaging statements” without hearing from the security firm.
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“It is therefore disturbing that a company such as yours, with the array of purportedly talented and knowledgeable staff and professionals at your disposal could make such far-reaching, irresponsible, and potentially damaging statements against a long-standing business partner without allowing the other party to defend itself and especially when the parties (Amotoi and Clement) against whom the allegations of criminality are being made have not even been questioned by the law enforcement agencies,” Enyindah said.
“This is most prejudicial and taints your company, its statements, processes, and any further or future investigations as far as this matter is concerned.
“The publications that were circulating and based upon which your company’s decision and statements were made are a clear hatchet job.
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“If you were to study the publications in the various print and online media, you would likely observe that the vocabulary and phrases across all the publications are too similar to have been a coincidence.
“It suggests that the same person(s) wrote the various write-ups with slight modifications and distributed the same to several media houses for publication.
“This leads to the reasonable conclusion that either your company has unwittingly bought into a hatchet job or you have sinister motives yourselves.
“Consequently, and based on the instruction of our clients, it is our instruction to demand and we hereby demand that: Not later than July 8, 2024, your company publicly refutes the statements attributed to your company or writes and delivers to our office a letter refuting the said statements, or not later than July 8, 2024, your company writes and delivers to our office a letter of unreserved apology to our clients for the damaging statements attributed to your company.”
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Enyindah said failure to heed the demands of the letter within the period stated will result in legal action against Aiteo,
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