April 25, 2022 11:06 AMOut of the blues, the acquisition of a mortgage-financed property in London by Mr Mohammed Bello Koko, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Port Authority is in the news again for the umpteenth time, and no doubt, it smacks of mischief and knavery. One wonders why the author of the story decided to pick on Koko at this time for a re-launch of a failed vitriolic attack on his person.
To me, regenerating and reviving a stale story published several times over and over again by an online news media is no doubt, a disservice to the noble profession of journalism and an unnecessary shaft or attack on the person of Koko, a banker of repute, who rose to the position Regional Manager of Zenith Bank.
For all I know about this gentleman with a successful banking career, the same property was declared to the Code of Conduct Bureau before Koko was appointed into public office. From personal inquiry, the mortgage loan was signed in June 2015 and it is for 15 years tenor.Koko had in 2014 moved his family out of the country for security considerations after they faced a life-threatening attack in Port Harcourt, Rivers State during the 2015 polls.
To say the least, it is infantile, reckless and a height of desperation to get back at Koko; I also submit that it is sheer muckraking by some journalists who must have been paid by wholesalers of tainted and slanted information and disinformation.