Following an order of Justice I. N. Buba of the Federal High Court Lagos Division, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over assets belonging to Glano Nigeria Limited over indebtedness of over N2 billion.
Head of Head Corporate Communications Department, AMCON, Jude Nwauzor, disclosed this in a statement yesterday.
AMCON which was established to recover bad debt on behalf of the federal government had been in an endless court battle with Glano Nigeria Limited and its promoters since 2016, but had waited patiently till 2018.
According to the statement, “having looked at the case in its entirety, especially regarding efforts AMCON had made to resolve the loan amicably without cooperation from the obligor, the court finally decided to back AMCON’s takeover of Glano Nigeria Limited.”
It pointed out that in compliance with the enforcement order, the corporation last Thursday, took effective possession of Glano Nigeria Limited property located at No. 22 Woji Road Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital, which had been under the management of Sterling Law Alliance since 2019.
Apart from granting AMCON possession of the property in Port Harcourt, “the court also ordered AMCON to take all necessary steps required to realise the assets of the obligor within the judicial division, by seizing and taking any money bank notes, cheques, bills of exchange, promissory note, and all forms of bonds of security for money, with a view to realising the huge outstanding debt.”
It added: “The case of Glano Nigeria Limited and its promoter has been a protracted issue because the loan was purchased during the third phase of Eligible Bank Assets (EBA) from United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc way back in 2013.
“Since then, AMCON has offered the obligor a good measure of olive branches, and explored all avenues to resolve the matter amicably, but the obligor and his company, Glano Nigeria Limited remained recalcitrant and unwilling to repay the huge debt to the corporation,” it added.
Nwauzor, explained that the enforcement came after a long period of meticulous court battle.
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