I really think this person who calls himself very dark man had better just verily calm down.
His recent push towards national recognition on the back of his wahala with the notorious Bobrisky seems to have given him an elevated ego.
His ego seems to have gone over the roof pushing him towards issues that he really does not have the capacity to engage talkless of playing the self acclaimed ombudsman that he has positioned himself to play.
This latest storm which he has generated is his claim of a mising N500m from an account domiciled in well respected Access Bank
Usually, I really mostly ignore this person, since he showed to the world that he didnt understand the very simple meaning of defamation.
Securing a private recording of a conversation illegally , rushing to the media with it and screaming- I cannot believe that the great Femi Falana……showed me that this was a person not to be taken too seriously
So when I stumbled on this his latest gambit, I made to scroll pass until I noticed 3 banks being mentioned
GTB, Keystone and Access, these made me tarry to listen to him.
He didnt make a lot of sense as expected. He was technically out of his depth and looked quite ridiculous pontificating very boldly about processes he didn’t have a clue on.
Apparently, in his position as the average Joe’s ombudsman, he was handed down a case of a man who had died interstate.
The man according to him, on his dead bed had told his sister that he had cash in these banks.
He listed the three banks and dropped the Bomb shell that he had N500m in Access Bank
Firstly, an experienced adult not prone to social media hype would first raise an eyebrow as to the possibility of someone with that kind of amount dying Interstate.
From experience, as a wealth advisor, I would say that possibility was not to say the least random.
Upon his passing, the sister dutifully obtained a letter of administration which empowered her to be the beneficiary of her late brother’s estate.
According to this very dark person, the sister got lucky with GTB and Keystone where she was able to claim the funds.
But when it got to Access, there was trouble.
He claimed in his widely viewed rants that at first Access Bank denied existence of the account and it was not until the woman went into fisticuffs with the branch manager before they accepted that a tiny sum was in that account
Wait, the sister was initially said to have written to CBN who durifully assisted her in securing the brothers BVN which enabled her trace the funds to these three banks.
Now according to him, when it got to the account with the purported N500m, Access like the power grid broke down again.
Then another round of hara kiri and a statement was released with a healthy balance of N1 or so.
Very Dark Person like those empty headed TV Judges now sat to judgement
According to him, some years in the statement were misisng and as such Access Bank must tell him what happened to those transactions in those years.
It didnt cross his little mind that just may be this person didnt transact in those years especially when his balance was showing a robust N1 as a clear balance.
With that ‘piece of evidence’ he went to town on Access Bank asking Nigerians to be careful of the Bank and basically just pushing for a run on the Bank.
I have seen a statement issued by Access Bank confirming that first and foremost, the said acct – 2229502270 is what is known as a Yellow Tier account, meaning that it cannot hold more than N300, 000 at a time and as such, the N500m claim to his sister could have been caused most likely by the hallucinating effects of the drugs he was going thru at the time before his passing.
The statement went ahead to explain how they had cooperated with authorities on the matter since 2022 including complying with a High Court decsion on the matter.
Despite all of these, this very dark person still climbed on his high horse to attempt a shake down on the Bank
Or whatelse can we call it. An account that cant hold more than N300k, a bank balance of N1 confirming the dynamics of the account and its posible non use in those years that he could not see in the released statement of account.
Immediately, I saw the Access Bank report, I rushed back to VDMs post to see the viewing numbers it had reached and possibly read some commentries from the public
As at the time, I am writing, about 184,000 people had viewed with 18,000 comments representing about 10% of the views showing huge interest in the matter by this sample size and 11,000 people sharing it.
By VDMs standards these are paltry figures showing either a lack of interest by his public or a growing irritation at his penchant of jumping at every issue no matter what.
But my major concern is the huge 10% who viewed and commented.
Majority of the commentary where hapless and hairbrained.
At first glance you will want to shrug and move on but then you realise that Access Bank has a strong retail foundation you begin to see these things differently and you begin to understand why the Bank moved in very decisively and effectively to put a wet blanket on this fire.
Its statement on the matter has been carried, I noticed by a slew of very influential online platforms including Nairaland with its massive followership.
In all of these, I didnt see where he tried to reach out to Access Bank to hear their own side and just like he did with the Falana’s jumped into the fray on the strength of one side of the story.
Two things, I would say at this juncture-
Our society needs many Very Dark men. People who are bold enough to tackle the system and its powerful people but in doing this, they must be intelligently armed with technical capacity, a fair sense of balance and be guided with a good understanding of social justice
This was a banal play to the gallery in an immature show of youthful exuberance oblivious of its possible impact on his target.
The second thing I would like to say is the sensitive nature of the banking system-my first constituency.
The Financial system trades on trust and confidence. Anything that goes at that base would weaken the system and we all would be the worse for it.
For a Very Dark Man with his newly minted image and huge followership should be very deliberate in his approach to his work and be a little bit more circumspect in his engagements.
Thankfully, this has been resolved and lessons have been hopefully learnt by all parties cos this was a very silly dark thing to attempt.
Thanks
Duke of Shomolu