Some staff of a commercial bank accused of defrauding the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the N8B mutilated currency scam in 2014 have asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate their allegations.
The six of them said they have nothing against the EFCC but wanted the Commission to carry out investigation of the allegations leveled against their staff.
The Ex-bankers who are standing trial for allegedly defrauding the Central Bank of Nigeria in the N8b mutilated currency scam had claimed that EFCC investigator, demanded N96 million for their release on bail.
But, the Ex-bankers among whom are Ayodele Festus Adeyeml, Isiaka Akano, Sunday Ajiwe, Oyebanji Akeem, Ayodeji Alese and Demola Oni at a press conference in Ibadan during the weekend insisted that they paid five hundred thousand naira each, before they were allowed to go on Christmas holiday with their families in December 2014.
The accused said they were in prison since 2014, therefore they could not address the media to express their plight.
The accused persons who said they were still standing with the affidavit they swore at a Federal High Court in Ibadan, maintained that their inability to pay N12m each as a bribe to EFCC officials made them to be victimised while those who had money were freed.
They insisted that they had no case to answer, as they alleged that “the people who were accused in the CBN report are still living a normal life because they had paid bribe.”
The accused persons urged EFCC, the police and other security agencies to investigate activities of some of the officials the EFCC whom they accused of collecting bribe to free accused persons.
When contacted, the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Iwujare said the case of the six ex-bankers is before the federal High Court in Ibadan.
“The case is before federal High Court in Ibadan, let them go and face their trials,” he said.
