Goddie Ibru 'on the keep running' as EFCC pronounces him needed over asserted extortion

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday pronounced a business big shot, Mr. Goodie Ibru needed over charged capital market extortion. 

It was assembled that the counter join office is after Ibru over charged waiting emergency on shares in Ikeja Hotels Plc. 

As indicated by an announcement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, Ibru is likewise needed for asserted tax evasion. 

The announcement said: "general society is thusly advised that Goodie Minabo Ibru is needed by the EFCC regarding an instance of trick, capital market misrepresentation, taking, preoccupation of assets and IRS evasion. 

"He redirected billions of Naira and resources of Ikeja Hotels Plc, proprietors of Sheraton Hotel, Lagos; Federal Palace Hotel and Capital Hotel; proprietors of Sheraton Hotel Abuja to his own advantage. 

"Anyone having helpful data as to his whereabouts ought to contact the commission through any of its workplaces situated at Abuja, Kano, Gombe, Lagos, Ibadan, Maiduguri and Port Harcourt." 

An exceptionally put source in EFCC said: "We have served summons on Ibru however he is yet to react to our welcome. This is the reason we have proclaimed him needed. 

"I think it is a board emergency which has made numerous shareholders to compose a formal appeal to the EFCC. 

"Likewise, the Federal Government through the Bank of Industry has around 13.1 for each penny stake in the combination. In this way, the administration's assets are caught as well." 

There had been an emergency of certainty among shareholders of Ikeja Hotels Plc in the most recent one year. 

Furnished with a Federal High Court arrange, a few shareholders, drove by Mrs Maiden Ibru, the dowager of The Guardian distributer, Mr Alex Ibru, held a dubious Extra-Ordinary General Meeting outside the Sheraton lodging premises on January 6, 2015. 

However, Ibru, driving different individuals from Ibru family, acquired an ex parte order from the Federal High Court, Abuja to control Mrs. Ibru from "calling an EGM or speaking to her late spouse's venture vehicle holding offers in Ikeja Hotels Plc." 

A few shareholders later purportedly sacked Goddie Ibru as the administrator and chief of the organization over corporate administration infractions. 

They additionally picked Mr Olumide Braithwaite and Mr Tunde Sarumi as executives of the organization. 

KPMG Nigeria Ltd was commanded direct a measurable review of the administration of the organization from 1999 to 2014 when Mr. Goodie Ibru was the executive of Ikeja Hotels Plc 

Be that as it may, Ibru, who said he would challenge his indicated expulsion in court, said: "in any case, the supposed EGM was not appropriately gathered. 

We have more than 14,000 shareholders, none of whom was issued with the notice required by Sections 220-222 of CAMA (Companies and Allied Matters Act), nor were they managed the chance to delegate intermediaries to vote in their stead."