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Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by IMASTEX: 7:49am On Jan 22, 2018
Nice info
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by ZorGBUooeh: 7:50am On Jan 22, 2018
Debtors don't be happy with this advice, if you owe anyone money go ad pay up to avoid stories that touch..
Sum pipu no dey use money play ooo.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by satowind(m): 7:51am On Jan 22, 2018
gbosaa:


He will locate you, then relocate you where you’ll never be found.
I go settle police and he will carry last
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Asabaman(m): 7:52am On Jan 22, 2018
That is when u are not owing an Ijebu man....

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Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Nobody: 7:54am On Jan 22, 2018
satowind:
I go settle police and he will carry last

Na inside police cell you’ll vanish, no one will ever find you.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by InvertedHammer: 7:58am On Jan 22, 2018
It depends on how much is the debt because lawyers' fees may be high.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Trustme2(m): 8:02am On Jan 22, 2018
Don't borrow anyone any money you cannot forfeit. I have learnt a bitter lesson. A friend is still owing me 400k since 2011 and it's not as if he doesn't have o.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by goingape: 8:06am On Jan 22, 2018
That was how I hired boys to broke one of my debtor's leg undecided


How much self you won use take hire lawyer for this country!


Follow this writeup at your own risk!
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Trustme2(m): 8:10am On Jan 22, 2018
Some people are very wicked in this life. Don't borrow anyone any money you can't forfeit. I have personally learnt in a bitter way. A friend I borrowed some money is still owing me 400k till now since 2011 and it's not as if he doesn't have o
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by FakoMaybach1: 8:11am On Jan 22, 2018
This is a wicked article, so OP u are encouraging people to owe Gbese since na civil wrong not criminal.....well since i cannot self help then i will not help at all. No more borrowing anybody money until debt becomes a criminal offence
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Nobody: 8:28am On Jan 22, 2018
BrandSpurNG:
If overdue debts are standing against your name and you are unable to settle, chances are that your Creditor may resort to self-help as a countermeasure to get you to pay-up. Self-help measures may include the use of menacing threats, violence, bodily harm, malicious destruction of goods or property, and/or your arrest and detention by the Police at the creditor’s behest.

Action You Should Take

For starters, you must endeavor to settle all outstanding debts as and when due to maintain a good relationship with your creditor and to avoid embarrassment and harassment by your creditor or the Police. However, if you simply cannot pay up due to a breach of contract by your creditor, you need to talk to a lawyer to help you prepare for a setoff or counterclaim or to initiate an action for breach of contract against the lender/vendor. However, if you are facing cash-flow problems, your lawyer can help you negotiate the restructuring and the rescheduling of the debt with your creditor to allow you a light and easy installment payment plan.

What You Should Note

As a debtor, note that your receipt of a Letter of Demand by your creditor/vendor or through his lawyer is indeed a pre-action notice for a debt recovery action in Court. You should talk to a lawyer before responding to such Letter of Demand in order to avoid legal liability for the debts due, otherwise, your reply letter may be used against you at the Court hearing.

What to Do If Your Creditor Resorts to Self-Help or Uses the Police to Harass You

Failure to repay overdue debts is a civil wrong and not a criminal act. The Police and other security agents, therefore, have no power under the law to arrest, prosecute or to take any action against a person for failure to pay debts. The court frowns at any self-help or extra-judicial step by a creditor to recover the debt.

Where your creditor resorts to self-help or uses the police or any security agents against you, you should talk to a lawyer. Your lawyer, depending on the circumstance of your case, will commence a court action for the enforcement of your fundamental (human) rights including release from detention, and for liabilities for assault; battery; false imprisonment; constitutional rights abuse against the creditor and the Police; and get compensatory monetary damages awarded by the Court in your favour.

The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.

SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/for-debtors-what-to-do-if-your-creditor-resorts-to-self-help-or-chases-you-with-the-police/


I always knew that u weren't talking about Nigeria......From the Pics u added, I confirmed it.......The figures there was written in dollars.

grin.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by freeman67: 8:35am On Jan 22, 2018
Some Lawyer and quest for anyhow money sha... This is an advert for people that owe and do not want to pay to contact you abi. Instead of paying his debt he rather use the money to pay your fees. As a civil matter that no security agent have the right to arrest and prosecute a debtor it then means someone can go borrowing anyhow. You no sabi say as you smart that so the owner of the money smart too by the time wey dem go change the thing to 'Obtaining Under False Pretence' if you see no go comprehend.

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Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Ignatio(m): 8:35am On Jan 22, 2018
Any debtor that goes for the service if a lawyer is malicious. How does he pay the lawyers fees.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Pamelayoung: 8:37am On Jan 22, 2018
If the person doesn't have money to pay na money to hire lawyer him go get abi. Continue encouraging debtors.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by fridaraku: 8:55am On Jan 22, 2018
OP dont try this things with a warri man, souls might go
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by ultron12345: 8:56am On Jan 22, 2018
now u pple see why doctors refuse to treat without deposit........after treatment, the patient will nw opt to pay N20k bill over 500 years
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by SirBunky85(m): 8:59am On Jan 22, 2018
jerflakes:
You never owe men before

If you owe real men, you must pay back what you owe

No be all these things you dey talk
abeg no mind dat attention seeker of an op.instead of telling debtors to pay,hes here vomitting thrash
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Zdoh(m): 9:07am On Jan 22, 2018
Sprumbabafather:

Some debtors can be so annoying, imagine my shock to find one of my tenants drinking beer in a club where Hero lager is sold for N700, meanwhile he is owing me 1 year and 6 months rent x 25k a month!

I must use self help o, his property will be resting outside my compound before weekend. Some agberos are waiting to pack him out by force.
Ha na wa for that man....chai no conscience at all.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Castleprof(m): 9:15am On Jan 22, 2018
Who Ikechukwu Anajemba Owe?



He should ask late Ikechukwu Anajemba (Godas) and others the consequence of owing and refusing to pay up.[/quote]
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by wacoj(m): 9:58am On Jan 22, 2018
This is so TRUE. It is a civil offence NOT a criminal offence.
I am a victim. I learnt someone a very good amount of money and almost a year after
the pay back period elapsed, and he still refused to pay, I involved the police,
Police told me they can't do much, that is is a civil offence not criminal, I decided to let it go.

Till today, the guy hasn't given me a dime rather he bribed the IPO with some amount.
I left everything to GOD.

Advice: If you are lending money to people, be reminded that failure to pay back is a civil offence not criminal offence!
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by booblacain(m): 9:59am On Jan 22, 2018
How about situation where your employer refuses to pay you?
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by newslifeop: 11:01am On Jan 22, 2018
Lol
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by fuke(m): 11:25am On Jan 22, 2018
369x:
nice one

what is nice in refusing to pay a debt.
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by jeeqaa7(m): 12:53pm On Jan 22, 2018
Saved
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by ladyF(f): 5:04pm On Jan 22, 2018
Them no go kukuma see my money chop.

All loan facilities ended in 2017. grin
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by Hopeak: 5:30pm On Jan 22, 2018
GideonIdaboh:
In dis year and beyond, I shall not have any course to borrow to the extent that a creditor will start chasing me about with police IJN
Amen... Truth be told,debt is not a good thing. May we not have any reason to borrow anything..
Re: What To Do If Your Creditor Resorts To Self-help Or Chases You With The Police by satowind(m): 7:19pm On Jan 22, 2018
gbosaa:


Na inside police cell you’ll vanish, no one will ever find you.
u dey naija so

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