RE: AGM Audio10 Aug 2023 13:18
Thanks cperkin.
Just listened to the Audio cast. Lots of information there, the things that stood for me were:
AF:
• saying one of the AD plant opportunities has been lost due to Scirocco having no funds
•the first thing Scirocco will do when it receives the initial Ruvuma sale funds is employ another director to liaise with Shareholders lol. Clearly T.R is fed up with us.
T.R:
it still has the business strategy envisaged by N.R which is to take shareholder money, invest it, wait until another company wants to buy that company. Sell, spend any monies made on fees & them come back to shareholders, raise , invest & repeat. So no money EVER gets returned to shareholders.
• T.R believes 3 payments will be received by January.
Tanzania has never done anything that quickly so I am skeptical. Certainly 2 payments is possible. I would of thought a 3rd payment wouldn't be payable until early 2025. This is a dangling carrot moment for me.
•so the APT loan has effectively provided a free carry facility during the sale.
• Scirocco needs to access capital to buy assets.
But if 3 payments would be received by January 2024, wouldnt that be all the capital needed?
•1 AD plant with all the bells and whistles can be valued at £7M.
Lol I haven't seen any evidence of that. The current plant isn't generating one tenth of that.
•blaming the shareholder revolt for costing the company money lol
•£500,000 for director wages & fees acrued since 2021.
▪︎if £5.5M is expected by year end and then a royalty stream to start in Q1. I don't understand why money is an issue. Scirocco will be flush with cash.
Seems to me like shareholders have now put a restriction on Scirocco spending money it doesn't have and the Board are now throwing a tantrum.
All I want is a business plan that shows the model works.
On the one had T.R is saying there are lots of backloged opportunities in the AD space but then contradicts that by saying if we have to wait before with have money to spend it, we lose the opportunity. Lol that sounds like good financial sense to me.
•Scirocco can't wait around for cash to acrue in the bank before it can spend it? LOOL WHAT????????? But that is sound business acumen.
To surmise, that presentation hasn't reassured me or reestablished confidence in Scirocco. In fact it's done the opposite.
But the one positive thing I have taken from this is the £5.5M that is pending.
Whether I wait for Q1 royal streams to kick in before I crystalize my losses, I am on the fence with. But getting sucked back into believing I will see a return is not something I want to do.