Bank Staff sentenced to 4 years for stealing Customer’s N9.3 million

A staff of First Bank has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of stealing N9.3 mil­lion belonging to a customer.

An Igbosere Magistrates Court, Lagos, sentenced David Anibolu, to 4 years’ imprisonment for steal­ing N9,308,000 from the First Bank account of a customer.

David, who was a cashier, was found guilty of conspiracy and convicted of stealing by Chief Magistrate A. O. Awogboro. Be­fore the sentence, the convict’s counsel Philips Onyama made an allocutus for his client and pleaded for a sentence of a fine, or a lenient jail term.

“He’s a first time offender; he has no father, only a sick mother who relies on him to survive. He has been in custody since March 24, 2014 and has suffered emo­tional and physical torture. He is also now more sober and refined,” lawyer Onyama pleaded.

Pronouncing judgment, the Chief Magistrate sentenced Da­vid to four years in prison, start­ing from the date of his detention, adding that: “No one must be al­lowed to profit from his crime.”

The 26-year-old David was ar­raigned on April 3, 2014 by the Lion Building Police Division, Lagos, on a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.