THE Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over assets belonging to Ike Nwabuoku, the Chief Promoter of Unicorn Place & Leisure Services Limited over an indebtedness of over N1.3billion.
This is following the order of Honourable Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court, Lagos division.
The Court also ordered that the bank accounts of the company and its major stakeholders, Ike Nwabuoku and one other Ifechukwu A. Onyema be frozen pending the final determination of the suit.
In compliance to the enforcement order, AMCON on Thursday June 25, 2020, took effective possession of the two properties through its debt recovery agent – Kayode Ajekigbe of Chris O. Okunowo& Co, which include properties situated at 1 and 2, Kwara Street, Osborne, Ikoyi, Lagos and Plot 23 Block 65, Lekki Peninsula Residential Scheme, both in Lagos State.
The case of Unicorn Place & Leisure Services Limited and its promoters, according to statement from AMCON, has been interminable because the loan was purchased by the corporation during the first phase of its Eligible Bank Assets (EBA) purchases from Keystone Bank since 2011.
Since the purchase, AMCON has offered the obligor all sorts of concessions and explored all avenues to resolve the debt harmoniously, but the obligor and his company Unicorn Place & Leisure Services Limited have remained recalcitrant and unenthusiastic to repay the huge debt to AMCON.
Confirming that AMCON had enforced on the assets and frozen the accounts in line with the order of the court, Jude Nwauzor, Head, Corporate Communications Department of the Corporation explained that all avenues for peaceful resolution were explored to no avail before AMCON made the hard decision, which led to the eventual takeover of the assets.
He said AMCON before now held several meetings with the obligor and arrived at agreements in principle, but the obligor always made a turnaround to default, leaving AMCON with no other option than to approach the court and in the wisdom of the honourable court secured the order to take over.
Even with the rampaging cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, AMCON from all indications has no intention of slowing down in achieving its recovery mandate. The takeover of Unicorn Place & Leisure Services Limited is coming few days after the government recovery agency also took over the two buildings belonging to Doggi Group Limited in highbrow areas of Asokoro and Katampe Hills in Abuja.
There are indications that AMCON will take over a lot more companies in the coming weeks especially with the additional powers in its amended Act, which President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law last year to enable the corporation increase the speed of recovery of the over N5trillion that is still outstanding
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