Over twenty men and women who are staff of Heritage Bank Plc today June 21 stormed the Abuja residence of Senator Andy Uba, representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate, to demand that he pays the bank the loan he owes.
In a video
shared online, the aggrieved workers who wore branded T-shirts and Jean
trousers could be seen gathered in front of Uba's house in protest, with
placards in hand.
A voice in
the video said they were staff members of Heritage Bank and were at the
Senator's house 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.
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 ad we know the situation of the economy now. If this
numbers of people are thrown out of work, you know what it means.
So we are
here to appeal to the Distinguished Senator to kindly pay this money so that
these people will not lose their job..."
The senator
is yet to react to this development.
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