EMEKA IKE DOES NOT HAVE SYMPATHY FOR HIMSELF–LANDLORD SPEAKS OUT

Few weeks ago, news went viral that popular actor, Emeka Ike was ejected from his school’s property in Magodo area of Lagos State. He was said to be owing the owner of the building housing his school, St Nicolas College in rents. The landlord of the house, one Chief Akintan has now opened up on the matter. The 87-year-old man stated that even though he has sympathy for Emeka Ike, the actor does not have such for himself. He spoke with Saturday Sun on the matter. The octogenarian chairman of Samak Investment Ltd, Chief Akintan wondered why the actor chose to be a pain in his neck. He said that he has sympathy for the Nollywood star, but “unfortunately, Emeka doesn’t have sympathy for himself.” According to him, his company leased the property to the actor on June 1, 2007. Before then, he said he had never heard of Emeka’s name as his children were the ones that told him that he’s a Nollywood actor. He said: “I never knew this gentleman from Adam. He just came to my house with his wife and I was worried about who he was and my children came to me, saying, Emeka Ike, we know him daddy; he is a nice gentleman. That is how I fell into his hands.” He said the recommendation from his children made him enter into the lease agreement of five years which was to expire in 2012. According to him, “he was supposed to pay for the first two years N2 million each per annum and the subsequent three years N3 million per annum. The total rent for that period of five years should be N13 million. He paid N2 million for the first year and never paid again until three years later when he paid another N2.5 million. Even this N2.5 million was a tug of war before he could pay it. So, out of N13 million, he paid only N4.5 million and the balance should be N 8.5 million.”