Nigerian singer Orezi is suing Bolt formerly known as Taxify for 100 Million Naira. This move comes after he suffered a damaged jaw in an accident that occurred on December 6, 2019.
According to the singer, he was rushing to meet up with a morning flight to Delta State for a performance when he took Bolt at about 5:30am in the morning and suddenly woke up to a crash on Third Mainland bridge.
He said:
“I was seated at the back when it happened and it seems I crash my jaw into the front seat. So I lost consciousness and was bleeding from everywhere. I still managed to make the flight after I got first aid but I’m fine now.”
Orezi through his lawyers ‘Abimbola Fakeye Chambers’ has written a letter of demand to Bolt requesting a whooping One Hundred Million naira as damages.
A part of the letter reads: “the unnecessary hardship, loss of income, medical bills spent and more importantly, death scare arising from this incident has necessitated this letter and we have been instructed to employ every legal means to recover adequate and due recompense”.
Based in Estonia, Bolt was founded six years ago by a 19-year-old college drop out, Markus Villig. Since then, the company has turned into an unexpected success story by becoming Uber’s most formidable challenger in Europe and Africa.