Juliana Francis
The
Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Milverton, Ikoyi Lagos, has arrested five staff of Sterling
bank, Sokoto branch, over allegations of fraud and stealing. The fraud Unit has
also declared a man hunt for the former manager of the bank, alleged to have
taken part in the crime.
The
ex-bank manager, Mr. Kayode Adeyanju, was alleged by the five staff to have
conspired with them in helping themselves to depositor’s funds. Adeyanju was
also said to have used money stolen from the bank where he worked, to treat an
ailment that had been troubling him and used part of the money to relocate
himself and family to London.
The
fraud Unit explained that Adeyanju, who is currently at large, conspired with Albert
Nsude, 32, Danladi Garba, 38, Nasiru Shehu, 40, Daniel Adeboye, 32 and Patrick
Jimoh, 32, to defraud the Sokoto Branch, the sum of One Hundred and Forty-Six
Million, Seven Hundred and Eighty-Two Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty Naira (N146, 782,980.00) by manipulating the
Sokoto State Board of Internal Revenue account domiciled with the branch.
The
bank further stated that the money was diverted to their personal purse without
the consent of the bank management.
According
to SFU spokesperson, Ngozi Isintume-Agu, during investigation, the five
suspects were apprehended and they all admitted granting various illegal loans
to some private companies and local government department through the
instruction of the ex-bank manager, Kayode Adeyanju.
They
all alleged that the principal suspect took the sum of N70 million belonging to depositors to treat himself of his ailment
and bolted away to London with his family.
Isintume-Agu
said: “Investigation is on-going while measures have been put in place to track
the fleeing ex-bank Manager and forestall insider threat to the financial and
non-financial institutions in the country. However, all the suspects will be arraigned
in court, soonest to serve as deterrent to other bankers.”
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