A man has found himself in serious trouble after receiving a transaction alert of N100,000 wrongfully paid into his account.
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A 26-year-old undergraduate, Sunday Akande, has petitioned the
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, for help over alleged
unlawful detention. While writing to the IGP, the student through his
lawyer F. E. Ojeikere, in a letter copied the Commissioner of Police,
Anambra State, claimed he was arrested and detained for an offence he
knew nothing about.
Akande revealed that he was wrongfully arrested by the police after
he voluntarily reported a N100,000 transaction paid into his account.
His predicament started in July 2016 when he received a credit alert of
N100,000 on his First Bank account with a branch on Airport Road Warri,
Delta State.
As every good citizen is expected to do, Akande who was not
expecting such money from anywhere, felt that the money must have been
wrongfully paid into his account. Vanguard reported that he said on same
day he went to the bank to bring the development to notify the bank and
requested that the money be removed from his account.
He claimed the branch manager (names withheld), directed him to
write a statement of his complaint, which he did. The petitioner
lamented that months after having lodged his complaint, the bank still
did not remove the money from his account.
However things tookl a dramatic turn on October 24, when he went to
the bank to transact normal business, but discovered that he could not
access his account, noting that he was then directed to see the bank
manager. The petitioner noted that while he was waiting, the bank
manager invited police to arrest him, saying “from there I was taken to
Ekpan Police Station at Uvie Local Government Area, where I was detained
for three days.”
His lawyer argued that the petitioner’s fundamental human rights were breached.
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