Skye Bank Staff Arrested & Docked For Stealing Customer’s Money in Jigawa
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The Jigawa state police command has nabbed a staff of the Skye Bank working in Hadejia local government area of Jigawa state. In a report published by 247 Reports, the banker, Yahaya Garba was said to have been arrested by the police following reports by one of the senior staff of the bank alleging he was diverting customers’ money to his personal account. Following series of complaints, the management of the bank established an investigation that eventually led to his arrest by the police.
Malam Garba Yahaya, 45 years was arraigned before the Dutse Chief Magistrate Court-One in Dutse new secretariat. He denied the allegation levelled against him. He described the allegation as fabrications by the staff who reported the matter to the police just to blackmail him and tarnished his image.
According to the first information report filed by the police, the suspect Malam Aliyu Garba was in the habit of diverting customers' money into his personal account, amounting to N1.7million. Customers discovered that their money were withdrawn from their account into other accounts which belongs to Malam Aliyu Garba.
Malam Aliyu Garba while appearing before the Chief Magistrate in Dutse said he did not commit the offense levelled against him. His lawyer Malam Muhammed Zakiyyu prayed the court for a bail. The court granted the suspect bail on three conditions that:
The suspect produce two sureties, one of the sureties must have a house in Dutse and must be living in the state capital Dutse and all of the two sureties must produce their letter of promotion to the court and two recent passport photograph with deposit of N200,000 and also ensure that the suspect will not prevent the police from dutifully carrying out their investigation.
Justice Mustapha Datti said the offense committed by the suspect is a breach of trust and it is a criminal offense punishable under section 312 of the penal code
Justice Mustapha Datti adjourned the case for hearing to September 2/9/2014 and assured that if the suspect meets the conditions of bail, he would be granted bail.
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