Maduka Onyishi Returns N2.2Billion To First Bank Wrongly Credited To His Account

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In a rare display of honesty, the Managing Director of Peace Mass
transit, Dr Maduka Onyishi has returned a whopping sum of N2,219,500,000
which was wrongly paid into his account to First Bank.

The
cheque was received on behalf of First Bank by the Business Manager,
Commercial Banking, Mr Kokelu Ben and the Branch Manager, Unity Bank,
Enugu Branch, Mrs Ifeoma Eleanya.

Dr Onyishi who explained how he
discovered the huge sum in his First Bank account said that he had
requested for $3m from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN through Unity
Bank PLC only to be paid $10m instead, which is about N3,219,500,000
representing an excess of N2,219,500,000.

According to him, “The
amount they paid in was N3,219,500,000 but my own money there is
N1,000,000,000 so the balance is not my money. I said that I cannot
invest this money and be gaining from another person’s money and I can’t
also keep it. I can’t keep $7m Dollars that doesn’t belong to me.

“I
told my bank to pay money into my account that I want to take 3 million
dollars and they paid ten Million Dollars instead. I called them and
informed them that the amount they paid to me was more than the amount I
requested. They told me that the ten million Dollars was my money.

“I
was angry with them. I asked them how come I have this kind of money
and I’m not aware of it. I asked them how come they went ahead to invest
my money without telling me so that I can use my money and then I can
know how much I have.

“I told them that they have failed to give
me a statement of my account even when I have demanded for it severally.
I discovered later that the amount was even more than what we are
talking about because there was another person I asked the bank to pay
money to whom they even paid extra.

“I made enquiries and they
told me that I should wait until when it is time for banks to do
reconciliation, they will discover whether the fault was from First
Bank, Central Bank or Unity Bank. I waited for a whole month and no one
called me. I told the devil that he is a deceiver and a liar. He knows
that I need money now that is why this thing is happening now.

“That’s
why I said, let me invite First Bank and Union Bank and also invite
journalists. I said let me give the money to First Bank, if they find
out that the money is mine, they should return it. If it belongs to
Unity Bank or CBN give it to them. If it is your own, keep it. So I am
giving this money to you to keep on trust

He called on the
management of CBN, Unity Bank and First Bank to look into the origin of
the money and such leakages could come with dire consequences for any
commercial institution.

“I had sent emails to the bank to inform
them of the wrong payment and they didn’t find anything. My account in
First Bank was not debited so they did not see it. Unity Bank did not
see anything because they just received the money.

“Nobody knows
if the money came through Central Bank because the money came through
three organizations before it came to my account in Unity Bank. Why I am
doing this is that if it is either First Bank Unity Bank or CBN that
has this fault, they should as a matter of urgency block the loophole
because this is a sign that people’s money have been missing everyday.
It can also lead to a total collapse of any bank.

In his
response, the business manager, commercial banking, First Bank, Mr
Kokelu Ben said that, “I don’t have any official thing to say but I must
state that Dr Onyishi is a man of Integrity. When we look in into the
situation we will advise him on what happened and how to remedy this
situation.”


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