By Olayiwola Ibrahim
Prince Aliyu Adelaja is certainly unhappy with the First Bank of Nigeria, FBN. The Prince is actually a victim of banking fraud. He’s in pain, agony as he mulls filling legal action against FBN whom he claims does nothing to protect his money in its custody.
Adelaja, a resident of Lagos returned from work late last month and discovered half a million disappeared from his FBN account. He made frantic calls to the desk line but to no avail.
‘I couldn’t sleep throughout the night of 26th August, 2024. I returned from work by 6pm,. I was exhausted, feeling deeply asleep. I managed to take a shower and sleep. I was dozing when I got a beep on my phone. I checked and discovered a debit alert of N499. 500. I jumped up immediately, checked and checked again with tears rolling down my chicks. I called the FBN customer line without success. I was sadly shocked, I couldn’t sleep again. I was restless, helpless till day break ‘.
Adelaja, an FBN customer of account number: 3040174119 lament in a chat with SECURITY MONITOR.
According to Adelaja, ‘I reported the fraud to Fagba branch of FBN. It was discovered that the money went to FCMB account number 7423219306 and name
AYOKUNLE TAIWO. How? It remains an unanswered question till date”
Prince Adelaja said he was told to fill a foam which he did but nothing changed after that. ‘My money was not refunded and no communication from my bank’.
The bank’s corporate affairs department couldn’t provide answers to this conundrum of banking fraud. Calls and messages sent to Folake Ani-Muminee and Ismail Omamegbe were ignored, fuelling fears of an imminent litigation between the bank and his customer.
