In an appreciation letter to the Public Complaint Commission Benin, Oriaifo stated that his ordeal in the hands of Royal Savings and Loans Ltd ended after intervention by the PCC.
While thanking the commission, he described the Commissioner in charge of Edo state , Barrister Felix Alari as “a man of honour, diligent and highly resourceful” for his relentless effort in the recovery of his title documents.
Oriaifo said, “In closing this letter, I have to register my special acknowledgement of Barrister Felix Alari, the current Hon Commissioner in Public Complaints Commission, Benin City, Edo state.
“My attestation is that he is, indeed, a man of honour, diligent and highly resourceful. He is a young man with great future ahead. My thanks goes to him and his team of officers who facilitated the release of my documents.”
The title documents, according to Prof Oriaifo included the Edo state certificate of occupancy dated 30 May 1984 registered as 8/8/B.54 at the Lands Registry Office in Benin, Original Deed of legal Mortgage dated 1September 2005 registered as 4/4/963 at the Lands Registry Office in Benin.
He said the Royal Saving and Loan Ltd for seven years had withheld the above titled documents even after the loan and specified interest had been fully paid.
Recounting his ordeal in the appreciation letter, Oriafo said the stress, deprivation and socio-economic and financial loss the Royal Saving and Loan Ltd subjected him to was “man’s inhumanity to man.”
He further described it as “injustice of monumental proportion.”
“I am now very happy and highly relieved of stress and tension initially occasioned by the long wait for the Royal Savings and Loans Ltd officials who deliberately refused to release my documents to me well over seven years after I paid off in full the sum together with their specified interests.
“Think about it! Imagine the level of stress, the amount of deprivation and the attendant socio- economic and financial loss that the Royal Savings and Loans exposed me to at a critical period of my life- my retirement era. This nightmare lasted for a duration of well over seven years,” Prof Oriaifo said.
