Heritage Bank customers throng headquarters for payment

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By NAN

05 June 2024 | 6:15 p.m.

Customers of the liquidated Heritage Bank Plc gathered astatine the bank’s office successful Lagos connected Wednesday, to question clarification connected the opening of their deposit payments.

A sojourn by a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) analogous revealed that information unit stationed astatine the bank’s entranceway prevented customers from entering the premises.

Addressing the customers done the gate, an authoritative informed them that payments had begun for savings relationship holders and would proceed until Friday.

“You don’t request to instrumentality immoderate action. NDIC unit are already processing payments. Your wealth volition beryllium transferred to your different relationship linked with your BVN,” the authoritative assured.

However, firm relationship holders were advised to instrumentality “next week,” starring to concerns among immoderate who noted that BVN is typically associated with idiosyncratic accounts, not companies.

The ambiance remained sombre arsenic customers declined interviews with NAN.

A lawsuit simply stated, “Mine is an entrepreneurship account.”

Efforts by a NAN analogous to summation entranceway were thwarted by information personnel, who referred to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s property merchandise dated June 3, announcing the revocation of the bank’s license, arsenic the effect to each inquiries.

CBN revoked Heritage Bank Plc’s licence connected Monday, citing a breach of Section 12 (1) of BOFIA, 2020, and appointed the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) arsenic the liquidator.

NDIC Managing Director, Mr Bello Hassan, disclosed astatine a quality league successful Abuja that 99 per cent of Heritage Bank depositors had full balances little than N5 million.

He assured that payments would commencement earlier the extremity of the week, with insured benefits capped astatine N5 million.

According to him, those with deposits exceeding N5 cardinal would beryllium paid aft merchantability of the bank’s assets.

He added that payments would statesman earlier the extremity of the week.

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Customers of the liquidated Heritage Bank Plc gathered astatine the bank’s office successful Lagos connected Wednesday, to question clarification connected the opening of their deposit payments.

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