Bank robbery!

We woke up to news of a banker who stole over 14million Naira from the account of one customer and had applied for loans from his bank in the name of a customer.

Reason?

To gather enough money so he can abscond with the funds.

Can wonders ever end?

It is bad enough that the government has been throwing up obnoxious policies that have been throwing us the masses into more economic downturns.  But to have a banker in whose bank one committed his hard earned finances into, steal such funds and abscond seems way out of the line.

But then this is not the first time. There are numerous stories of people like that whose funds had mysteriously disappeared from their accounts. I think the worst of this is a case where the lady had been toiling so hard abroad for over a decade and had been saving up her funds in a Nigerian bank, only for her to return and invest her money just to discover that she has been the product of a scam and all her monies disappeared. 

Or the lady who over #450,000 was debited from her account leaving her account with a deficit of #150,000 in the name of bank charge and all.

Unfortunately,  the Nigerian scenario we see, such funds eventually disappear without a trace.

Whilst I applaud the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for their role in uncovering the crime of today and arresting the criminal banker, the various banking institutions in Nigeria need to sit up and stop these financial crimes and theft within their institutions.

That's the least they can do.