Afrigather In continuation of its clampdown at components irritating efforts in making the redesigned Naira notes accessible to members of the general public, the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC), has arrested an official of one of many business banks for alleged sabotage.
The financial institution official, who’s the Department Service Head of Stanbic IBTC Financial institution, Deidei Department, Abuja, was taken into custody for her deliberate refusal to add money into the department’s Automated Teller Machines (ATM) even when the money was accessible, and folks had been queuing on the ATMs.
When the ICPC monitoring workforce stormed the financial institution at about 1:30pm to make sure compliance, and demanded rationalization as to why all of the ATMs weren’t meting out money, it was knowledgeable by the department’s Head of Operations that the financial institution simply bought supply of the money.
Nonetheless, information accessible to the ICPC operatives indicated that the department took supply of the money round 11:58am and both willfully or maliciously refused to feed the ATMs with the money.
Towards this backdrop, the ICPC workforce compelled the financial institution to load the ATMs with the redesigned Naira notes and ensured that they had been all meting out earlier than arresting the wrongdoer.
Investigations are nonetheless ongoing, and the Fee will take acceptable actions as quickly they’re concluded.
In a associated improvement, the ICPC Compliance Workforce in Oshogbo has busted an FCMB in Osogbo, Osun State the place some ATMs had been loaded with money with their wrappers un-removed, thus stopping the money from being distributed. The Workforce subsequently directed that the wrappers be eliminated, and the money loaded correctly.
Nonetheless, when a follow-up go to was undertaken the next day to determine the extent of compliance, the Workforce found that one of many ATMs was nonetheless loaded with the wrappers un-removed.
The Operation Supervisor of the Financial institution was arrested and brought in for questioning.
Equally, seven Level of Sale (POS) operators in addition to a safety guard had been arrested in the course of the ongoing train in Osun State for charging exorbitant commissions for money. Investigations nevertheless, revealed that they bought the cash from Filling Stations that acquire new notes from gas patrons, however they then resell the money to the general public at exorbitant charges.
The arrested individuals are serving to the Fee with data to help investigations and bust any syndicates concerned within the hoarding or gross sales of the redesigned notes.
