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About 350 Nigerians had borrowed over N4 trillion from banks without corresponding collaterals.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Uba Sani stated this during a presentation at the ongoing political engagement with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Kaduna State on Friday.
Senator Uba, who is also the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate told the workers that is not about people coming to make presentations, but what such an individual can do or has done in the past..
He attacked his opponents, the gubernatorial candidates of the PDP, NNPP and LP for failing to sponsor a single bill while they were at the National Assembly, saying,” how will they think of governing a complex state like Kaduna.
He boasted that as a Senator, he sponsored 31 bills and two of the bills have been assented into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Senator Uba Sani who is representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the red chamber had said one of his bills that has become law was the Amended Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria Act that was assented into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on the 21st November, 2021.
He noted that, “When I became the chairman senate committee on Banking, Insurance and other financial institutions I realised the banking sector was almost in a precarious situation in the country.
“Nigerians have borrowed N4. 4 trillion and the borrowers are not ready to repay back. So, we fold our arms, we will reach a point where the banking sector will collapse. To avoid any crisis, we decide to amend the AMCON Act. We amended some key areas as well as introduced the Asset Tracing clause as part of efforts to recover outstanding debts,” he said.
According to him, “at the end of the exercise, we discovered that 350 Nigerians borrowed N4. 4 trillion without corresponding collateral, when we calculated the total value of the collateral was only N700bn which was far less than the N4 trillion we are talking about.
The APC gubernatorial candidate said, some people were given their houses in remote villages as collateral, but the amended law now gives AMCON power to recover any property of the debtors in any part of the country.
“Anyway, the MD of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amcon) has just hinted to me, that they have so far recovered N1. 7 billion from these debtors, courtesy of the new law in place,” he said.
The lawmaker remarked that when he becomes governor, he will improve on the legacies of El-rufai, saying, El-rufai has done his best because as human beings you can not satisfy everyone.
He also pledged to improve the basic standard of education in the state saying, “once we get the basic education right, the standard of tertiary education will automatically improve.