Niger Delta
Customer Petitions Banks Over Fraudulent Withdrawals
A Bayelsa-based customer with the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Mr. Nwoke Caleb Chinedu, has petitioned the duo of the UBA and Nirsal Bank Plc over alleged illegal debits and deductions from his accounts.
Chinedu in a recent statement issued to newsmen in Yenagoa, the state capital, by his team of lawyers, S. O. Idike & Partners tagged, “Complaint of fraud and connivance by UBA in respect to account number: 2103400794 with the name Nwoke Caleb Chinedu: A connivance with Nirsal bank PLC”, added that the hardship he faced due to the alleged unlawful deductions has made him to give the banks seven days pre-action notice to correct the errors.
According to the statement, the lawyers said their client, who is a customer of the UBA, on the 22nd of June, 2024 received a debit alert from his own personal account with Access bank to the tune of N 76,304.00 as debit from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as loan recovery from a loan which was allegedly disbursed by Nirsal bank Plc in 2021, saying that such loan is alien to their client who has suffered untold hardship occasioned by these deductions.
The statement added that upon more enquiry to unravel the reason for the alleged illegal deductions, it was discovered that Mr. Nwoke Caleb Chinedu was not privy to the opening of such account and therefore did not receive a loan from Nirsal bank Plc, saying also that it was at the same time found their client’s particulars, his BVN, name and others were utilized to acquire the said loan from the Nirsal bank Plc without his knowledge of such account and loan received.
The statement read in part: “Furthermore our client did not receive nor did he benefited from such loan/grant to the extent of paying for what he did not receive or benefit from.
“Be that as it may, our client has suffered greatly to shock, embarrassment, defamation and BVN defaultment by the CBN for future transactions.
“In all ramifications, we hereby give the Nirsal bank Plc a period of seven days pre-action notice upon receipt of this letter”.
Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa