26yr OLD SENTENCED TO 4yrs IN JAIL FOR CARTING AWAY WITH OVER 9MILLION NASIRA

Bank Cashier sentenced to 4 years in jail for taking N9.3 million 

A Bank Cashier, 26-year-old David Anibolu, was on Wednesday sentenced to four y
ears in jail by an Igbosere Magistrates' Court in Lagos for taking N9, 308,000 from a client's First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc account. Anibolu was summoned on April 3, 2014 on a two-check charge of intrigue and taking. 

It was uncovered by the indicting Police Superintendent, Chidi Okoye, that on the 22nd of March 2015, Anibolu who was on yearly leave went to the bank where he worked at FBN Alaba 2 branch in Ojo under the appearance that he needed to help a client in posting his territory utilize charges. Anibolu supposedly utilized the chance to exchange the aggregate of N9.308 million from a client's record into different records. 

"He falsely changed a client's personality and order card which empowered him to charge the said record of the entirety N9 million and moved it into different records," Okoye said. 

It was uncovered that Anibolu admitted in an announcement offered by the indictment that his assistants, who have all departed suddenly, guaranteed to give him N4 million from the cash stolen, notwithstanding, they vanished with all the cash. 

As indicated by the police, Anibolu stated, 

"I have been working with the bank as a teller since 2011 yet upon the arrival of the episode, I utilized the passwords of my partners with the assistance of "F" Key lumberjack given to me by my companion called Afeez who is currently on the loose. The lumberjack interfaces a client's relationship with another that has web based managing an account, which empowers money to be exchanged effectively starting with one record then onto the next. My lament now is that I should get N4 million as my share however the collectors of the cash have since vanished. I lament my activity." 

Anibolu denied that the announcement is valid, asserting he was tormented by the police at the station to put forth the expression. In any case, the Chief Magistrate A.O. Awogboro decided that there was no proof of compulsion or torment and acknowledged the indictment's declaration as sound. 

The trial which went on for a long time and nine month was wrapped up on January 25, 2017 with the Chief Magistrate discovering him not liable of a tally of connivance but rather indicted for taking. He was sentenced to four years in jail, starting from the date of his detainment. 

Under the steady gaze of sentencing, Anibolu's legal advisor, Philips Onyama, argued for a sentence of a fine, or a permissive correctional facility term for his customer. 

"He's a first time wrongdoer; he has no father, just a wiped out mother who depends on him to survive. He has been in care since March 24, 2014 and has endured enthusiastic and physical torment. He is likewise now more calm and refined," Onyama argued

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