“Senator Uba has been owing the bank for a couple of years now, and we are here for a peaceful meeting with him, very peaceful meeting. “
About 20 members of staff of Heritage Bank Plc, men and women in the bank’s branded T-shirts and jean trousers have reportedly stormed the Abuja home of Senator Andy Uba, over alleged unpaid debt.
The bank staff accused Uba, currently representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate, of collecting loans from the bank and refusing to pay them back.
The protesting bankers were seen around the politician’s home with placards in hand demand payment of loans collected.
A voice in the video published by Sahara Reporters said they were staff members of Heritage Bank and were at Senator Uba’s residence in Abuja to put pressure on him to pay back his loans after several efforts had failed.
They said they felt compelled to take the action because their jobs were at stake, adding that they would likely lose their jobs if the loans were not repaid, according to the online news platform.
The voice said: “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today is Monday, the 21st day of June 2021, and we have here the staff members of Heritage Bank Pl, Abuja. We are in front of Senator Andy Uba’s house in Abuja.
“Senator Uba has been owing the bank for a couple of years now, and we are here for a peaceful meeting with him, very peaceful meeting. To ask him to kindly repay those loans, because they are depositors’ funds.
“Those monies, if they are not repaid, will throw the number of the people you see here, with their families out of work. And we know the situation of the economy now. If this number of people is thrown out of work, you know what it means.
“So that people will not lose their job…”
Senator Uba’s net worth as of February 2021 was reportedly put at $2.1 billion.
He was once enmeshed in a money-laundering scandal which he denied when he demanded a probe into rumours of his arrest adding that he was never arrested for any reason in 2019.
