By Eric Elezuo
Veteran journalist and Chairman, Ovation Media Group, Chief Dele Momodu, has said that the purported arrest of Nigeria billionaire businessman, and owner of Aiteo, Mr. Benedict Peters, in Ghana, was ‘overblown’, of ‘lurid picture’ and ‘littered with tarbrush’.
Speaking via his social media handles on Tuesday, Momodu frowned at how news that bears the citizen of Nigeria often “it often generates some hoopla and hysteria”, noting that he has been in touch with the businessman, who confirmed that all was well.
Momodu further quoted Mr. Peters, who he spoke with as saying that the Ghanaian authorities acted promptly, professionally and responsibly to douse the tension.
Below is Momodu’s detailed statement:
“Earlier today, the Ghanaian social media was awash with the overblown story of a Nigerian billionaire businessman BENEDICT PETERS who was purportedly arrested because his “armed militia” operatives blocked the entrance of a highbrow residential estate near Jubilee House in Accra.
As always, any news that bears Nigerian citizens in it often generates some hoopla and hysteria. But as someone who knows BENEDICT reasonably well as a well-informed and unassuming businessman, I knew the lurid picture being painted of him was obviously littered with tarbrush.
I have now spoken with BENEDICT and was happy that he said the Ghanaian authorities acted promptly, professionally and responsibly to douse the tension.
This is how Ghana can continue to be a destination of choice for investors and tourists…”
Beyond his pan-African status, Benedict Peters is a thorough investor in the oil and gas and mining industries among others.
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