A security man and employee of First Bank Nigeria Plc, Jibowu Branch,
Seyi Jaiyeola, is standing trial at a magistrate’s court in Ebute Meta
for allegedly breaking the company’s automated teller machine and
stealing a sum of N12, 533,900.
The bank’s branch Service
Manager, Mr. Kayode Aiyewunmi, who gave evidence in court, said Jaiyeola
was on a N20, 000 monthly pay and was a member of the Odua People’s
Congress.
He said the company had observed that one of the bank’s
four ATMs was having a reconciliation problem and had employed the
service of an expert to help unravel mysterious disappearances of money.
Aiyewunmi said, “We discovered that there was always a shortage of cash in the machine.
“Despite
our reconciliation efforts, the ATM was still having problems and we
engaged the service of an expert who submitted his report and said the
machine did not have any reconciliation issue.
“He said somebody was breaking into the machine in the middle of the night to steal the cash.
“I
reported the matter to my boss, who said I should conduct an
investigation into the matter. “When the last breakage happened, we
went to play back the branch’s CCTV, and we now saw Jaiyeola in the
middle of the night, opening the window at the back of my office.
There’s a control panel which controls the security door, which he
touched. So, the CCTV stopped.”
He said it was at that point the company concluded he was the brain behind the theft.
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