How banks protect staff guilty of stealing customers’ money – Punch Newspapers

Given the disturbing rate of fraudulent practices that has made many bank customers across the country to lose their savings, sometimes with the aid of some workers in the bank, TUNDE AJAJA in this report examines the severity of this problem and how most of these banks cover up their staff members involved in such practices

The last two months have been some of the most difficult period in the life of Mrs. Lola Adekanmi, a 52-year-old low-level civil servant based in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Apart from almost developing high blood pressure as a result of a phoney transaction made on her bank account, she has lost considerable weight in the process of doing all she could to survive and recover the money.

A widow with five mouths to feed, the distressed woman, who hails from Ilesa, Osun State, has had it rough since the death of her husband and best friend of over 25 years in 2015.

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