HARD TIMES FOR JIMOH IBRAHIM
…4-weeks after Mimiko sent him packing at Owena Motel, Akure
---Fashola Seals off Air Nigeria
While the wound and disgrace inflicted on the ego of the Ikale Billionaire Chief Jimoh Ibrahim by the governor of Ondo State,Dr.Olusegun Mimiko who sent him packing from Owena Motel was gradually healing another Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State had sent officials of the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue Services[LSBIRS] to seal off one of his Lagos based companies.
The corporate headquarters of Air Nigeria, one of the companies of the Ikale billionaire, Mr Ibrahim’s , also a financier of the Ondo State Chapter of the disintegrated Peoples Democratic Party[PDP] at Etiebet’s place on Mobolaji Bank Anthony way, Ikeja Lagos was sealed-off over alleged unpaid tax.
Sunshine Voice Lagos Correspondent report that the Lagos State government officials stormed the office of Dr. Ibrahim who was among the short-listed PDP ministerial nominees from Ondo State at about 12.30pm and locked it up after asking the workers to vacate the building.
The workers were said to have been forced to relocate to the car park behind the corporate building after the officials allegedly visited the place to transact skeletal business with multitude Air Nigerian passengers.
But chairman of the airline, Jimoh Ibrahim, through the telephone responded that the matter was resolved, admitting that the tax collectors came visiting the office over tax matters which he said was owed when the airline was under the management of Richard Branson and called Virgin Nigeria.
Ibrahim however disclosed that what the Board of Inland Revenue owed were taxes when Branson, chairman of Virgin Group,was owner of Virgin Nigeria, a company Ibrahim bought over only last year .
The workers were said to have been forced to relocate to the car park behind the corporate building after the officials allegedly visited the place to transact skeletal business with multitude Air Nigerian passengers.
But chairman of the airline, Jimoh Ibrahim, through the telephone responded that the matter was resolved, admitting that the tax collectors came visiting the office over tax matters which he said was owed when the airline was under the management of Richard Branson and called Virgin Nigeria.
Ibrahim however disclosed that what the Board of Inland Revenue owed were taxes when Branson, chairman of Virgin Group,was owner of Virgin Nigeria, a company Ibrahim bought over only last year .
This occurrence is coming just on the heels of an earlier tough time being witnessed by the businessman who received a shocker from the Ondo State government who refused to extend tenure of his company NICON LUXURY Hotels Management PLC lease as the official manager of Owena Motel.
Dr Jimoh Ibrahim was recently featured in themedia celebrating the takeover of the Oceanic Bank Plc and the establishment of a private university at Sao Toe respectively as well as buying over the Newswatch media empire which he promised to turn into a daily paper.
Though he had also gone through some troubled waters in recent time having his mother kidnapped and battling Ondo State PDP chapters crisis
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