Management of The First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has publicaly apologized to both Emmanuel Omale, head of the Divine Hand of God Ministries, and the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu over N573 million erroneously ‘credited’ into Mr Omale’s account.
The bank published its apology in three national newspapers -The Guardian, Daily Trust and BusinessDay – according to a letter seen by Premium Times on Sunday.
Omale had filed a N5 billion suit against the bank over its report to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit of the alleged payment.
Standing on the bank’s report, the Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Assets alleged Omale had received N573 million to purchase a property in Dubai for Magu.
But the Managing director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Adam Nuru told the Ayo-salami led panel probing the allegations against Magu that the bank made an error of posting N573 million into the church account of Emmanuel Omale.
This error was discovered by the bank four years after the money was posted.
However, in its apology letter the bank wrote: “Please be informed that in line with the undertaking contained in our aforementioned letter, we have published in three national newspapers (The Guards newspaper, Daily Trust newspaper and Business Day newspaper) on September 11, 2020. Please find attached herewith copies of our public apology to Divine Hand of God Ministries,”
“It is our hope that the public apology has assuaged the grievances of your client, having seen that the error was indeed not borne out of any malice towards them. Kindly extend our good wishes to your client, whilst assuring you of our warm professional regards.”
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