TVC E. A manager with First City Monument Bank, Olisa Nwakoby, has shot himself to death in the presence of his priest and relatives. A close friend revealed that he spoke with his mother and everybody was begging him not to take his life. They went as far as calling his cousin that he respects and listens to, while she was begging too, he turned deaf ears instead, shot in the air and then shot himself in the head, the cousin present at the scene immediately administered CPR on him but it was too late.
It was reported that, the father of a 10 year old girl decided to kill himself over a toxic loan of N350 million he approved for an unnamed customer.
The beneficiary had been unable to pay, making the bank resort to Nwakoby to pay both the principal and interest on the money.
Nwakoby, a graduate of Abia State University, was said to be scared of soiling his family name in case the story goes awry.
It was gathered that his late father, Chief Patrick Oguejiofor Nwakoby was a former chairman of First Bank of Niger Plc, a successful lawyer , politician and a highly respected community leader before his death. Fear over his integrity and the family name, which could be dented if his bank commences action against him over the loan, was too much for the vibrant banker to bear prompting him to shoot himself.
Our source did not say that there was suspicion of any foul play in the death of the banker, nor confirm the actual amount involved in the transaction” The case is being handled by homicide detectives attached to Area J Command, Lekki/Ajah.
According to a police source. Late Olisa, on the fateful day he killed himself, went to meet his pastor. He told his priest to tell his wife to take good care of his children, that what he would do in next few minutes would shock everyone. He was said to have later blown his brains out.
“It was later discovered that he took money from the bank, N350million, and the money started creating problems for him. He killed himself.” When the Lagos State Police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmus, was contacted, her two lines were switched off. Olisa hails from Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Government of Anambra State and he attended Abia State University, where he bagged a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, in Microbiology between 1990 and 1995.
TVC News speaking with a close relative ( names withheld) ”He was able to access a fixed deposit of a client and removed N350M to use for Forex business plus groove money. The Forex business went bad and he lost all the money” the source said.
He continued by saying: ”He got wind that the bank found out about it and was scared of all the whole negative problem that will resurface from police problem to jail term and family disgrace and decided to take his life”.
”The father is a director in the bank, he had friends he could have raised half of that money to calm the bank down and one of our friend said he approached him that he wanted to use his UK house to borrow N7OM, this was the process of trying to raise the money back.”
Looking at the Late Olisa’s story, one will guess he couldn’t deal with the pressure, the reason for his action.
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