Nollywood actor, Fred Amata, was on Wednesday ordered by a Surulere
Magistrates’ Court in Lagos to pay one year rent arrears amounting to
N600,000 to his landlord.
Amata was dragged to court in September 2010 by his landlord, Pa I.
Fadoyebo, who asked the court to help him repossess his house from the
actor.
He claimed that Amata was owing arrears of rent on the
four-bedroom bungalow he was occupying at 8, Razaq Balogun St.,
Surulere, adding that the rent had accumulated from October 2009 to
September 2010.
In his judgment, Magistrate Mukaila Fadeyi did not
order Amata to vacate the property, but ordered him to pay the arrears
within 14 days.
He blamed the lack of diligence prosecution on the
part of Fadoyebo’s counsel, Mr. Y. A. Adeshina, for the court’s
inability to assist the landlord in re-possessing the house.
Fadeyi
faulted the tenancy agreement signed between both parties, saying it
was not dated while the seven-day quit notice was not served on Amata.
Fadoyebo had on February 7 testified that Amata was a bad tenant who brought all manners of people into his compound.
Amata
was not present throughout the court proceedings and neither he nor his
counsel, Mr. Chris Okoh, was in court when the judgment was delivered.
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