COPL the Opaque6 Sep 2018 13:41
I have been an investor for the past 30 years. Like most I have had my successes and failures but the goings on here are now getting me very anxious indeed.Art has been attempting to get this project financed for over a year and still all we get are encouraging noises about progress but stil no concrete announcement of having tied it up.The blame has been shifted on to NNPC and others but maybe NNPC have been waiting for the Financing before signing it off.
Two Placings have come 'out of the blue' after being distracted the otjer way by so called imminent good news. This atest Placing Price has devastated most of our holdings and in some cases caused real financilal difficulties for individuals and families.Yes, we are all grown ups and know we are taking risk. However, that risk is usually based on being in possession of all the facts and then making what we consider to be a rational decision.In the cases cited ,on both occasions, CEO A Millholland went on the podcast route and made very positive noises about imminent good news which implied that our investment would increase by multiples.
On both occasions we were deceived. Instead of the promised good news we were diluted and assured of ''Jam tomorrow''.
In any other other human endeavour this may be described as a form of theft.I cannot interpret what has happened in any other way. Yet Art continues on his merry way. And still no word of a Service Provider or a sign off by NNPC.
Instead of updating us by RNS, which is the norn,he uses Cathy to field all the difficult questions.How much she really knows it is difficult to ascertain,but her repies seem to generally reflect Arts strategy..
Now,the water has been furthur muddied by the ESSAR disagreeemnt. Are we to believe Art was unaware of this befeoe trupeting his imminent good news story?? The whoile thing stinks.
The truth is impossible to for us poor stooges to know. We are kept in the dark and and all we can hope for is that ART is a clever operator who really was on our side all along.If I am proved to have got it all wrong then I apologise but what else can we interpret from the scanty
information we are privy to???What is sorely needed is a complete explanation of what has guided ARts strategy up until now. We long suffering LTHers deserve no less.Sorry for the rant----long winded as it is, but the air needs to be cleared.for all our sakes.