According to reports, the customer who visited the bank the day before the incident to express his displeasure over the loss of #530,000 from his account without his authorization was told to return the following day.
The young man arrived in the bank the following day, and according to sources on the bank’s property, a customer complaint desk assisted him and informed him that the bank was unable to determine how his money had vanished at the time.
According to reports, the irate customer shouted in the banking hall, demanding a reimbursement of his money to his account.
According to reports, the bank manager emerged and instructed the guards to throw the customer out of the bank premises.
According to our reports, after many people assumed the man had departed, he came back a short time later with a 5-liter keg of gasoline. He then entered the banking hall and doused himself in the liquid with the intention of lighting matches and setting everything and everyone on fire.
Reliable sources further said that other customers and bank employees fled for safety, leaving only the irate customer in the banking area.
According to reports, the enraged client consented to put out the fire after being begged repeatedly by people who know who he is. However, he insisted that the bank manager pledge to start the procedure to get the money back to his account right away, or he would set himself and the bank building on fire.
However EaglesPath online report that GTBank Staff are sometime accomplice in the criminal act of taking out customers find without authorisation.
Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested a GTBank staff for allegedly withdrawing the sum of N14, 850,000.00 from the account of a customer of the bank.
The suspect, identified as Awulu Friday Ayegba, a relationship manager with the bank allegedly withdrew the said sum from a customer’s account between June 7 to July 21, 2023.
The suspect reportedly impersonated the duo of Henry Olowo and Terseer Shibiam using fake passport photographs, national identification numbers and phone numbers to open bank accounts with two company names; Sulib Complex & Investments and Seamless & More Global which are not duly registered with the CAC to withdraw the funds.
The anti-graft agency also said its intelligence revealed that Ayegba forged documents belonging to one Nduka Obinna to fraudulently apply for a loan facility to the tune of N40 million.
