| I’ll pay today
–Jimoh Ibrahim
From ISAAC ANUMIHE, Abuja
Monday, August 24, 2009
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•Jimoh
Ibrahim
Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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As the noose by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) tightens up on bank debtors, the Group Managing Director
of Global Fleet, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim has promised to offset his
indebtedness to Oceanic Bank today.
He said as international businessman he had to offset
the indebtedness of his companies based on the figures presented
to him by his bank.
According to the business mogul, he would make the payment at
the bank’s headquarters in Lagos today.
Jimoh, who stated that his indebtedness to the Oceanic Bank
plc was to the tune of N8 billion also threatened to go to
court if CBN failed to retract the publication where he was
said to have owed Oceanic Bank International Plc N14.782 billion
but which he claimed was only N8 billion and that the loan
was performing.
According to the business mogul, he will make the payment
in foreign and local currencies to a total sum of N8 billion
at the corporate headquarters of the Oceanic Bank Plc in Lagos
on Monday August 24, 2009.
“His decision to make the fulfillment was part of the
decisions reached at the end of the meeting of the management
of his companies in Lagos,” a statement from the
Economic Confidential said.
Jimoh, however, condemned the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN) for being hasty in the release of debtors list, adding
that no business could survive without bank loan.
While also demanding apology from the apex bank
and a retraction of the libelous list of debtors, Ibrahim
disclosed that he had no ill-feeling against CBN.
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