Atta Akyea Sues Dimitex Company

An NPP Member of Parliament Samuel Atta Akyea, who is also  a private legal practitioner, has dragged his client, Dimitex Company Limited, to court demanding an outstanding balance of his legal fee in the sum of GH¢270,000.

He has also sued Total Petroleum Limited as second defendants in the suit filed at the Fast Track Division of the High Court in Accra.

The MP for Abuakwa South in the Eastern Region, is claiming that he was engaged by his client to negotiate the sale of Dimitex Company to Total Petroleum and therefore had to be paid GH¢300,000, out of which only GH¢30,000 was paid. A situation he described in his statement of claim as the defendants’ attempt to use “blackmail to overreach” him.

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Meanwhile, a highly placed legal source explained that Mr Atta Akyea’s writ is billed to fail because he failed to comply with Section 36 of the Legal Profession Act, which provides that a lawyer can only go to court over legal fees after he had given the client 28 days’ notice.

The MP in his statement of claim wants an order from the court compelling Dimitex to settle the balance.  Atta Akyea also wants an order of perpetual injunction restraining Total Petroleum from issuing a cheque or transferring monies or doing anything relating to the outstanding consideration in favour of Dimitex until the final determination of the matter.

Meanwhile the defence counsel for Dimitex, Nkrabea and Associates has described the application as frivolous.

The motion is slated for October 14, 2015.

Source: YEN.com.gh