From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
Customers of the liquidated Heritage Bank, on Wednesday, stormed the branch of the bank in Osogbo, Osun Atate, to get claimants to form to collect their monies deposited to the bank.
This was occasioned by the revocation of the licence of the bank and subsequent takeover by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).
Some people who were suspected to be security do the bank were seen, selling the two copies of the claimant form to the customers who thronged the bank from far and near.
Daily Sun observed that the securities at the Station Road Branch of the bank had made photocopies of the form and were selling them to the customers at the rate of N200.
Customers were asked to fill out the form which the security claimed to have printed online and make photocopies to save people from the pain of going to cyber cafes.
“We printed it online. If you can not buy, go to the cyber cafe to download and print it. The site where you will download it is pasted on the wall,” a security said.
It was also observed that notice to depositors, notice to creditors, notice to the stakeholders of Heritage Bank and revocation of banking licence were conspicuously pasted on the bank.
The bank was shut while collection of the form was carried out at the security post in front of the bank.
The notice to depositors reads: “Defunct Heritage Bank operated as an insured institution under the provisions of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, 2023. The Corporation will pay all its depositors their insured deposits up to the statutory maximum of N5,000,000.00 per depositor for Deposit Money Banks (DMBS)/mobile money subscribers. However, depositors with funds in excess of the insured deposits will be paid as and when the assets of the closed bank are realised.
“Depositors will soon be notified by publication in national dailies as to the commencement of payment of the insured deposits.
“Meanwhile, all depositors who have questions or require further clarifications on their accounts or payments in the closed bank are advised to contact the Liquidator-In-Charge,” the notice read.