NAN-H-73
Banker
By Nana Musa
Abuja, Feb. 14, 2017 (NAN) A female banker, Gladys Ogar, 30, was on Tuesday arraigned in a Karimo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, for alleged diversion of N1 million.
Ogar is standing trial on a one-count charge of criminal misappropriation.
The defendant, a marketer with a micro-finance bank in Abuja, however, denied the charge.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Florence Auhioboh, told the court that Hillary Nwabileze who work at same place with the defendant reported the matter at Utako Police Station,
Abuja, on Feb. 7.
Auhioboh said Nwabileze alleged that the defendant formed criminal intention and dishonestly diverted N1 million belonging to Mohammed Abdullahi and 29 other customers as their account officer.
The prosecutor said the complainant said the bank management was not aware of the crime or where the money was diverted to.
He added that the offence contravened Section 309 of the Penal Code.
Counsel to the defendant, Cynthia Nnamdi, applied for her bail, and assured the court that her client would not jump.
The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, granted bail to the defendant in the sum of N200,000 and one surety in like sum.
Sadiq ruled that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must be a Grade Level six officer in Federal Civil Service and adjourned hearing in the case until
March 8. (NAN)
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Edited by Nyisom Dore/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu