CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said in London yesterday that the apex bank was ready to sell Union Bank, Intercontinental, Oceanic, Afribank and FinBank, 100 per cent to foreign investors.
But one of the foreign investors who spoke to Vanguard at about 8 pm yesterday on phone from London said that a pre-selection of the foreign investors was done by the CBN in July even before the announcement of August 14.
He stated that at the time of speaking with the paper the CBN team was meeting with each of those pre selected foreign investor whom he described as representing the interest of some powerful political power brokers in the country.
Sanusi who was quoted by Reuters while speaking in London at the conference the CBN governor called to reassure counter-party banks and foreign investors about the bailout said that he would not “stand in the way of any foreign banks taking a 100 per cent stake in the five Nigerian institutions”. The CBN also said that the five banks will be run as going concerns until new investors can be found to recapitalise them.
The Central Bank two weeks ago injected N400 billion into five banks and sacked their senior management, saying lax governance had left them so weakly capitalised that they posed a systemic risk.
Sanusi’s bailout, just two months after he took office at the helm of the regulator, shocked corporate Nigeria and initially panicked financial markets, sending the naira currency lower and triggering a stock market sell-off. S&P cut Nigeria’s speculative sovereign long-term foreign currency credit rating one notch to B-plus from BB-minus last week, citing the costly bank bailout and falling oil revenues.
It will be recalled that on March 23 this year Vanguard reported that Anti consolidation forces have regrouped with the hope of dissembling the banks and forcing a take over of the top five banks in the country. The grand plan by the group is to cause panic and uncertainty in the industry and make the target banks look unsafe for depositors.
Their aim, Vanguard gathered, is to cause loss of public confidence in the banking industry and compel the Federal Government to move in by injecting funds. Further, they ultimately plan to instigate government to take equity holdings in the targeted banks.
Vanguard investigations revealed that the group at work is made up of former bank owners who lost out during the consolidation exercise, a powerful clique in the present government, and some aggrieved persons in three of the six geopolitical zones in the country who felt left out in the consolidation exercise.
Presidency sources disclosed that those who felt left out in the consolidation exercise are grieved and are up in arms to recoup what they felt they lost during Obasanjo years.
Part of the plan hatched by the group is to ensure that incumbent Central Bank governor, Professor Charles Soludo does not get a second term. The plan is also to ensure that what ever gains that consolidation had is discredited. This it was learnt was meant to force the President to act quickly in matter of appointment of a successor to Soludo as they anticipate that the president’s slow move may scuttle their dreams and cause the renewal of Soludo appointment for a second term.
The group second game plan is to make Nigerian banks look un safe in the eye of the banking public. They have perfected their game by spreading rumour that some categories of banks are unsound and are on the verge of collapse.
The group is using this means to make depositors panic and undertake massive withdrawal of funds from the targeted banks in attempt to cause liquidity problem in the bank. In that state they hope to cause a take over by the government which may buy a stake in the bank and later sell to these privileged group who may be appointed in the interim into the board of these banks.
Now I am really curious about this Lamido guy...
What do you guys think is going on?
7 comments:
this guy called SLS need to be kidnapped,if we check him well,he is the most corrupt fellow in the banking industry,his actions shows that.
sell d banks to foreign investors? ok now.this is really dangerous.
Agenda or no agenda (theres always an agenda)
Sell de demd banks if need be. Half of corporate americas owned by japanese and arabs. as a shareholder I need return for my investment. finish.
dont give the hangman rope to do his job.
When u go public PROTECT your COMPANY (dont falsify reports) DO NOT MESS WITH YOUR SHAREHOLDERS, REMAIN LIQUID OR YOU WILL BE TAKEN OVER!
As I said earlier. Most American corps where taken over by the Japanese and the Arabs in the 80s esp. Shareholders dont give a eff. They want their money.
Asking people to remain patriotic or maintain ethnic senstivity in return for responsible management of funds is a tactic we the masses will probably fall for.
If you have money buy it yourself. I have 10 naira to contribute. Chikena
Its easier to entice shareholders of sick companies.
Imagine someone with 2million shares now worth 100k crying at home. Oga takeover offers you (mind you shareholders contacts are not secret) 1million kia kia. Multiply this even amongst a few of the big wigs who need quick cash (now they have to pay up), Also remember with the 420Billion cash injection CBN is prob majority shareholder. In a blink of an eye your company is gone.
Life isnt fair. But this help awakens complacent companies. thruth be told Nigerian publicly quoted companies on the eve of the bubble burst are easy pickins
CBN Govoner is an ass.....and to be frank he has no business being in that position................ Where in the history of banks have you heard banks selling their company to foreign investors. He is really going to fuck up the nigerian banking system with that bull shit....... Banking problem that needs to be address is intrest rates and all does bloody moguls who are owning the banks billions of naira needs to pay up with cash or assest to shape our problem
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