NAN-H-68
Stealing
Alex Enebeli
Enugu, Nov. 3, 2016 (NAN) A Micro-Finance Bank in Enugu on Thursday dragged one of its workers, Joy Eze, to the Enugu East Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N134,900.
The accused was said to have collected the money meant for a customer from the bank but never delivered it to the customer.
Testifying before the court, the President of the bank, Mrs Felicia Ekeh, said that the accused was employed by the bank in 2012 and was assigned with daily collection of cash from customers.
She said that the accused had between Aug. 7 and Aug. 12, 2015, collected N220, 000 from the bank, claiming that 11 of her customers needed their money and the money was given to Eze to give to the customers.
Ekeh said the bank was surprised when a customer complained that the bank was yet to pay him, which made the bank to investigate the documents submitted by the accused.
She said the bank later discovered that N79, 000 and N55, 900 belonging to the customer were stolen by the accused.
The complainant explained that some of the bank’s customers were illiterate or semi-literate and that this made them to rely on Eze to collect money on their behalf.
Ekeh alleged that the accused had been collecting money from the bank without giving the money collected to customers.
“The accused paid other customers apart from this particular customer and when the management asked her, she denied and the matter was reported to the police and she was arrested and charged to court,” she said.
The Presiding Magistrate, Mr Dennis Ekoh, adjourned the matter till Nov. 30 for continuation of hearing.
AAE/MNA/SN
Edited by Maureen Atuonwu/Silas Nwoha