N30m fraud: NUBIFIE petitions IGP, seeks arrest, prosecution
of two ex-officials
Organised Labour under the umbrella of the National Union of
Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees ( NUBIFIE), has
petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, to arrest and
prosecute two of its former National executive members, over alleged frauds
running into N30 million.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday and signed by the
Acting General Secretary of NUBIFIE, Odiaka Jude Nwanji, the union said the
report of an arrest of NUBIFIE President was not true, adding that the
president of the union was not arrested. The statement said: “the President of
NUBIFIE was not arrested at any time as
insinuated by the report, neither was any official of the union.
“The person purported to have been arrested was arrested in
connection to false affidavits deposed to before a honourable court in a
conspired effort to get an injunction to stop the IG Police amongst others from prosecuting him
and his collaborators over allegations of fraud which they have perpetrated in
NUBIFIE before and after they were duly suspended from office, and this,
involves two suspended national officers amongst others.”
However, Nwanji emphasised in the statement that NUBUFIE is
an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and not the newly launched
United Labour Congress (ULC).
He said: “It is a known fact with the Registrar of Unions,
the general membership of the union and the written constitution of NUBIFIE
that NUBIFIE is an affiliate of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and at no time
was the constitution amended to reflect anything contrary.
“Therefore, the mention of NUBIFIE as an affiliate of ULC as
publicized amounts to poaching and criminal subversion of a trade union. To
this end, the National Administrative Council (NAC) has forwarded a petition to
the IG Police to urgently prosecute the culprits.”
He said the former official who were suspended have been
found to have allegedly “diverted N2.94million gift given to the union by
Zenith Bank, about N36m National Delegates Conference levy funds which was
approved by NAC for the purpose of the conference in 2015; N5m diverted and
stolen through a WEMA account and over N23m diverted and stolen through a Skye
Bank account, operating secret and unapproved accounts.”
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