Months ago when we reported the nature of scams that were taking place in Zenith Bank Nig Plc, a lot of people thought we were ignorant of what we were saying.
Then, we reported how the bank had over charged the account of Tridac Nigeria Limited, one of its customers to the tune of millions of naira and how the bank had eventually settled out of court when the heat became too hot for them to bear.
Presently, the story making the rounds about the Godwin Emefiele-led bank is how one of its staffers on Wednesday, March 13, duped a 16 year old youngman identified as Toba Adedeji, a 100 level student of Redeemers University, Ota.
According to information available to www.theoctopusnews.com, the student went to Zenith Bank Plc, Sango Ota, Ogun State, to pay his school fees, on the faithful day and went to the bulk room.
He was however approached on the queue by a security man attached to the bank and after explaining that he wanted to make e-transfer payment at the bulk room he was given a tally number by the security man who directed him back to the banking hall for the payment.
While on the queue, he was approached by a staff of the bank and the man who was a cashier took Toba upstairs and collected the teller he filled with the money into an office he claimed was designated for e-payment in the bank.
And before any one could say jack the Zenith Bank staff and the money had disappeared.
Our source informed us the youngman was forced to raise alarm after waiting endlessly for the stamped teller and the so-called cashier. Interestingly, the representatives of the bank did not turn up on March 14, at the Songo Ota Police Station when they were invited to come and tell their own part of the story even though Toba and his mum were at the station.
On March 15, the branch manager of the bank was at the station with one of his workers but surprisingly the security man who allegedly related with the boy at the bank was not brought to the station. The bank officials, at the police station, insisted that they were not liable for the crime committed in their premises.
However, on March 22, the police, Toba and his mum were at the bank to view the play back of the Close Circuit Television (CCTV), a video camera that records activities in the bank. According to Toba’s mum: “When the CCTV was played, the visuals were not clear enough.”
“It captured Toba while on the queue at the banking hall, and he was asked to go into an office upstairs and when he was raising alarm after the money was collected from him.
“However, the CCTV did not reflect when my son was at bulk room chatting with the security man who directed him to join the queue on the banking hall and what transpired at the bulk room.
“I demanded from the bank to show us what transpired at the bulk room but they said a camera was not attached to the room and as such, what transpired there was not captured.”
A former staff of the bank who crave anonymity told www.theoctopusnews.com that it was impossible for the bank not to have a CCTV in the Bulk Room. According to him, the bank had most likely found the culprit via its CCTV, but since it would be detrimental to their image they simply decided to maintain that there was no CCTV in the bulk room. This is not the first time such could have happened.
He asked why there was no CCTV in the part of the bank where you have the largest sums of raw cash. According to him, the bank would always want to protect its image and this is the game they are playing.
“The incident has been transferred from the Songo Ota Police Station to the Surveillance Criminal Investigative Department (SCID), Eleweran, Abeokuta, Ogun State. We will keep you posted as it develops.
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