Management of the Abuja Investment Company Limited (AICL) has described as “mischievous and arrant falsehood” reports in some local and national dailies of purported crisis rocking the enterprise.
A statement signed by the Head, Corporate Services of the company, Mrs. Omobolanle Olatunde, said the report entitled: “Crisis rocks Abuja Investments Company Limited,” is a pigment of the imagination of the authors, which did not reflect the true position in the outfit and urged its numerous customers and the general public to disregard the report.
“For the avoidance of doubt, there is no crisis rocking Abuja Investments Company Limited and there was no such plan to sack 0 per cent of the about 60 people work force as claimed by the faceless sponsors of these wicked and malicious publications,” the statement corrected.
It further noted that the interim management team of AICL neither lobbied nor requested the Board to appoint or confirm it as the substantive management team of AICL, adding: “This campaign of calumny is the handiwork of some desperate individuals with life-long ambition of taking over the leadership of the company in order to avert legal prosecution over their various roles in bringing the company to its knees.”
It alleged that, such individuals incited some staff to create tension at the time the Board meeting was taking place in order to embarrass the members and the IMT, explaining the same were those who “outrightly circulated false and jejune information that 80 per cent of the staff were being considered for retrenchment due to idleness and incompetence.
But for the timely intervention of armed police men, the cajoled staff even attempted to physically attack members of the Board.” The statement said it has become imperative for the management to set the records straight because lies told repeatedly and severally could be mistaken for the truth.
It called on the investing public as well as the business community to know that “these malicious acts of desperation and attempts by some staff who are under EFCC investigations for corrupt practices and who are also being investigated by the relevant security agencies for inciting staff and intimidating the newly constituted Board are strictly for selfish reasons.
“As the investment holding company for the FCTA, AICL wishes to urge its customers and the general public to disregard spurious claims, fake petitions and unfounded reports by a few paid writers, who obviously acting out the scripts of lawless individuals, rushed to the press without verifying the facts,” it stressed.