Help Brain Iweh raise legal fees for an injustice

In Nigeria, and around the World, Food inflation has continued to rise after the covid-19 outbreak. Recently a terrible flood hit Nigeria and caused a lot of damage to farms and agriculture value chain, projecting more food inflation in the coming months or years in Nigeria.

Meet Brain Iweh, a young Nigerian Entrepreneur so passionate about building and expanding an innovative food security and digital agriculture initiative legally registered in Nigeria as  "Agriconnekt Services" (www.agriconnekt.com) to contribute to a better Agriculture sector and food security by providing  rural and small holder farmers Onboarding across the country, provide free training and micro loans in cash and in kind to support these farmers thereby providing partner jobs, and distributing these raw/fresh food items through a digital platform (Mobile/Webapps, USSD), warehousing, packaging and nationwide delivery to consumer doorsteps without stress at the cheapest price in the country thereby reducing food cost. The apps will also allow consumers to  access food loans, food insurance, and food savings to create a comprehensive food security initiative of "farm to fork" with diverse food accessibility.

Agriconnekt was set up 2019, but suffered from raising capital, and didn't operate till early 2020 just before the covid-19, it was preparing to launch in a small scale till we saw an adveritsed "call for solution" by the German Federal ministry of economic cooperation and development (BMZ) and European Commission (EU), implementated by The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH also a development Agency of German Federal Government.

Agriconnekt applied, and participated in a two days hackathon and was selected/announced as one of the nine global winners and and only winner with Nigeria as a project area, and was entitled to a total amount of $758,000 for first and second phase of the project that was supposed to kick off from January 2021-December 2021. On 11th of January, 2021, GIZ disbursed our funds to a US Non profit called "Mercy Corps" with an office in Nigeria to sub disburse to my company Agriconnekt, but till the time we are making this post, Mercy Corps did not disburse the funds to us giving lengthy reasons via email which we categorised as illogical and fraudulent, in summary; " That we are a start up and can not manage the grant of $758,000" even when we used our initiative and solution to write the project, was selected as a winner, prepared work plan, scope of work, and budgeting used for disbursement of the funds to the so Called Mercy Corps which GIZ brought in. Upon our investigation, and with evidence, we realised that Mercy Corps awarded and disbursed the grant to their long time partner company in Nigeria called "Coamana Ltd" who was never announced as one of https://www.agriconnekt.com the nine winners and GIZ in a mail confirmed their approval of this. We are so emotionally broken, and our dreams and visions was shattered, but we had to put our peices together to seek for justice!

In seeking for justice, after about a year plus of peaceful outreach to GIZ and Mercy Corps, of which they have refused to be fair and listen to us, Just last week as at when we are making this post, we filed a suit in a High Court in Port harcourt, Nigeria and duly served the defendants, with GIZ as first defendant, Mercy Corps as second defendant, and Coamana Ltd as third defendant with suit number:

PHC/3679/CS/2022

Additionally, we have petitioned them to The economic, and financial crimes commission (EFCC) to further seek justice, with petition number: EFCC/PET/HQR0238/2021.

Unfortunately, we are spending so much money to seek for justice and a redress, so we are here to solicit for your support to be able to take care of the cost for justice and other miscellaneous to cushion the effect of this injustice. We humbly anticipate and appreciate your kind support to our story.

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