Gbeleyi Abayomi
The managing director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Ahmed Kuru, has complained bitterly over the chronic debtors that are behind the over N5trillion debt burden which are ministers and national assembly members
Speaking at a Breakfast Meeting, organized by the Nigerian–American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) on Wednesday, Kuru said the corporation is making plans to produce a full-length television documentary of notorious debtors.
The AMCON MD said the idea was to document in a permanent format for generations yet unborn to know the so-called big men and women that are behind the over N5trillion debt burden, which AMCON is battling to recover.
According to Mr. Kuru, The worrisome aspect of the issue, he said, unlike what happens in other clime is that these obligors still manipulate their way to emerge as members of the national assembly, ministers, chairmen and women of big organizations and pro-chancellors of universities.
“Sadly, these are the calibre of people we respect in Nigeria but these people are not role models. How can you be a role model when you cannot honour a simple obligation?” he said.
That is why I have been consistent in the call for the return of the failed bank act. The way we are handling the issue in the country suggests that we are encouraging a lot of financial rascality.
“These are men and women who go to banks borrow monies with no intention to pay and in the process bring down banking institutions. It takes a lot for a bank to fail. AMCON just rescued Skye Bank with an investment of nearly N1 trillion.
“As AMCON, we have no power to arrest these ‘powerful’ people as we depend largely on judicial processes to recover and we all know the slow pace of judicial processes. We now want to go a step further by working with the ICPC and the EFCC, which will enable us to investigate and arrest those found wanting.
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