Friday, May 7, 2010

IMFB STAFFERS TURN CLUB TOUTS

IMFB STAFFERS TURN CLUB TOUTS
The turn of things after the closure of Integrated Microfinance Bank has made its staffers to turn club touts in their bid to recover debt which are owned by either the club management or the performing artist in the clubs. Their acts have really proved that an hungry man is an angry man.
Some staffers which include Soji Ogunladi and Dare Ogunleye and some others in Olowu branch of the bank have become regular visitors to clubs like King Size, Lascofis and other top clubs in Lagos in their bid to recover debts from the musicians that perform their weekly and even the some personnel of the clubs.
An example of such was when the aforementioned staffers of the bank stormed Lascofis to seize the equipment of a musician who happens to be the choice of fun seekers at the club. This resulted into a fight and one of them was said to have broken a bottle with a threat that he would stab anybody who begged on behalf of the musician who they claimed was owing the bank close to half a million naira. The bank staffers went away with the musician’s equipment such as speakers, microphones, guitars among others.
One of the fun seekers who was at the club at the time of the incident, claimed that the Central Bank of Nigeria has released a particular amount of money to the bank’s management to cover for the bad debt, which was why the bank was closed indefinitely. Those who should know revealed that the bank has not sent the staffers out to recover debt, but that they were doing it out of their initiative, claiming that the bank has directed them to use the debt to cover for about seven month arrears of salary the bank is owing them. One of the staffers was alleged to have said ‘how do I feed my family when I was thrown out of job without notice or salary for many months. I must use what I have to get what I want. All customers that I facilitated their loans and who have not paid the bank must surely pay to me or else….’ he lamented.
Impeccable sources added that a similar incident occurred at King Size, where a young man was attacked by a staff of IMFB, claiming that he was owning the bank some amount of money. A source added that the man was disgraced in the presence of his guests, and even his car was impounded and that the key was released to him after paying N50, 000. Those who should know claimed that a top staff of King Size nite club is one of the debtors of the bank. It was alleged that there was an occasion when the bank staff visited King Size like a customer and ordered for drinks worth N30.000 and asked the attendant to go and collect money from their debtor, who happens to be a top staff of the relaxation centre. The case was said to have led to a disagreement among the bank staffers and some of the club’s attendants who claimed that they had no business with whoever was owning them, that what they were after was the money for the drinks.

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