The suspects are Nwakaego Oke (a nursing mother), Wilson Nwajei, Collins Monday Ehiedu, Habib Momoh and Olakunle Abiodun, all managers of the United Bank of Africa, Agbor branch.
They are alleged to have stolen N55m of depositors’ fund, an offence contrary to section 390 of the Criminal Code Cap 17, Vol 2 Laws of Delta State of Nigeria.
The five accused persons pleaded not guilty to the eight-count charge when it was read to them. Thereafter, counsel to EFCC, Kayode Oni asked the court to remand them in prison and fix a date for trial.
Attempts by counsel to the third accused person to make an oral application for bail on the basis that she was a nursing mother was rejected by the judge, who castigated the lawyer for not doing the proper thing by filing an application for bail. She, therefore, ordered that all the accused persons be remanded in prison custody and the case adjourned to 26th September 2012 for trial.
The five managers, who are now suspended from the bank, were arrested following a petition from the UBA to the EFCC, in which the bank alleged that some of its staff in Agbor Business office converted several customers’ funds meant for Fixed Deposit to personal use and issued fake deposit certificate to depositors. They were also said to have dubiously booked temporary overdraft on the accounts of customers and subsequently converted the funds for their personal use.
For the duo of Wilson Nwajei and Collins Monday Ehiedu who were further alleged to have siphoned over N50m from depositors accounts, more trauma was to follow as they were both arraigned on a separate 26-count charge before Justice C. O. Ogisi.
The two, business manager and relationship manager, respectively, of UBA, Agbor Branch, were said to have obtained over N50m fraudulently from the bank. The two, at various times, converted customers’ deposit meant to be saved in fixed deposit, to their personal use.
For instance, Nwajei and his colleague were said to have fraudulently converted the sum of N4m property of UBA by booking a temporary overdraft on the account of one Dick Royal Limited without the customer’s consent and fraudulently collecting the sum from one Dickson M. Idah, the managing director of the company, under the guise that the money was wrongly credited to the said account.
In one of the charge, Ehiedu was said to have “on or about the 8th Day of November 2010 at Agbor defrauded and fraudulently converted the sum of N1,077,716 belonging to one David Mike, money he received from a depositor to be saved in a fixed deposit account and diverted same for person use.”
Nwajei, 37, a graduate of Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, joined the bank in 2001 as marketer. He became the Agbor branch manager in 2009. Ehiedu, a graduate of Edo State University, joined the then Standard Trust Bank, which later metamorphosed into UBA, in 2004.
In his confessional statement with the EFCC, Ehiedu admitted thus. “Some of these funds were supposed to have been fixed. I invested in a forex business of about 15m. It was invested with Sye Capital Ventures Abuja …. This was customer’s money meant for fixed deposit, which I have been paying interest on.
“The sum total, which I defrauded UBA of, is N48,081,000. I did some investment that failed, and promises are there that they will pay me when they start up properly.”
| Posted: at | |
Idbabe
chicco77
Solidstonez
TRENDING GISTS 
Singer Reveals How His Father Gave Him His Stage Name, Davido
VIDEO: “I Don’t Believe In Cohabiting Before Marriage” – BBN Star, Ifu Ennada Spills
THROWBACK: Zenith Bank’s Management Team Pay A Visit To Allegedly Apologies To Fayose - Photos+Video
See Tuition Fee Receipts Yahaya Bello Paid American School From 2025 Session Through 2031
SuperComputer Predicts EPL Title Winners After Victories For Both Arsenal And Man City
Man Shoots His Friend Dead For Taking a Bite Out of His Girlfriend's Burger