Ben Bruce and Muiz Banire
In our earlier report today,
we revealed that the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on
Thursday morning, took over the multi-billion naira assets of three
companies belonging to outspoken Bayelsa State Senator, Ben Murray-Bruce
after it secured a takeover authorisation from a Nigerian court.
Kunle Adegoke, an attorney working with Muiz Banire (SAN), the debt
recovery manager appointed by the AMCON to help recover loans from the
Silverbird Group, on Thursday, lampooned Ben Bruce after the
politician’s businesses failed to settle about N11 billion credit they
obtained from Union Bank.
Adegoke said the development had betrayed the tenets of “common sense”,
a major rallying cry of the senator in recent months, adding that the
media mogul had been using his businesses to exploit unsuspecting
Nigerians.
“And the Commonsense senator has persistently failed to pay the
loans and yet has been pretending to be concerned with the welfare of
Nigerians whom he has been skinning alive in order to remain relevant
and live like a king.”
The silverbird group CEO who is also a senator from Bayelsa State,
has taken to his social media and reacted to the reports of the seizure
of his assets.
"I have been on an international flight and have only just
landed. The situation is being resolved and things will be back to
normal. In 36 years, Silverbird has grown and as with any institution,
it will face challenges. Tough times don't last. But we, as tough
people, outlast them," he wrote on his Twitter account.
The question most people are asking is why would the senator
continue to post video clips in which he is always seen proffering
solutions to what he believed were the nation’s most critical challenges
without putting his own house in order.
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