An appeal on NLC/Kriston

Sir, I know you have so much to tackle presently, especially the issue of insecurity bedevilling our dear nation, however as the father of the nation and the last hope of the common man, I find it very necessary to use this medium to communicate our plight to you.My name is Barrister Suleiman Mohammed, a […]

Sir, I know you have so much to tackle presently, especially the issue of insecurity bedevilling our dear nation, however as the father of the nation and the last hope of the common man, I find it very necessary to use this medium to communicate our plight to you.
My name is Barrister Suleiman Mohammed, a civil servant. In early 2013, a company called Kriston Lally convinced thousands of both civil and public servants to believe that they were in partnership with the NLC and would provide affordable houses to them.
Considering the prevailing hardship related to housing all over the country, many of us keyed into the scheme thanking God for bringing such a palliative to us at last. We were meant to subscribe by paying N5000 and afterwards make an initial deposit of 10 percent of the total sum of the particular house each subscriber chose. The terms of the scheme were so friendly and with a 2 percent interest rate most of us did not hesitate to sell our personal belongings to ensure that we were not left out.
I had to sell my car at a giveaway price. My mother who has worked for 32 years rising through the ranks to the position of a comptroller has no house to call her own, even though she is retiring in three years’ time. She had to secure a loan to raise the 10 percent needed for the house she had selected. The story is almost the same for many other subscribers whose ordeals are worse compared to ours.
Sir we executed our end of the contract and waited for the developer & NLC to execute their own part which was agreed would be a done deal by December 2014 when all subscribers would be handed keys to their respective houses.
Then crises started and today as I write to you Sir, after nearly two years of parting with our hard-earned money, we are being coerced to agree to accept part of our money as collateral damage.
These monies were deposited in an account which yielded interest and we are being told that our money cannot be paid in full.
I write this because I know you abhor injustice, you dislike corruption, and you have a phobia for fraud. You hate to see people being suppressed and manipulated. Baba, I plead with you as the father of the nation to come to our aid.
Baba, if today our monies are not refunded it will be devastating to many. What most of us parted with or went through to secure that amount would have been in vain, while someone somewhere tinkered with our hard-earn money. Baba, if by any chance you stumble over this appeal, help many of our crying mothers just like mine, who have nobody to cry to, who went through so much hardship to raise the money, many fathers who only God knows what they went through to raise the money, youths like me who strove hard and avoided any unlawful means of raising the money and got theirs through legal means.
Please Baba this is a passionate appeal for your timely intervention.
Barrister Suleiman Mohammed
Lugbe, Abuja.