Wonder bank operator don run away with customer N2m for Ogun state

Serious gbege happen among traders wey dey Warewa community, for Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, after one wonder bank owner wey her name be Ngozi Adline dupe dem N2m. 

Adline, wey come from Imo State, operate under the name  Link M Investment Limited.

She get two employees, Oluwatoyin Adebayo and Esther Adelanwa, wey dey always help her collect money from customers. 

After dem collect up to N2m from residents, she run away in August 2016.

One of the workers, Adebayo, yan say for the time some of the customers dey ask for loan or try to collecy their money from their savings, Adline go make up story why the money no dey ready.

She added say since they (Adebayo and Adelanwa) be the ones wey dey collect the money from the residents, dem dey hold dem responsible for the loss of their money.

Adebayo yan say dem don report the mata for Warewa Police Station:

“We collected money for her (Adline) daily and weekly from customers. She promised to give those that wanted to save for three months five to 10 per cent interest. We started in April and everything went well, while our customers were satisfied.

“However, after about four months, we started having problems with the customers.

“The issue was that at the end of that month, she refused to bring money for disbursement to customers that needed loans and wanted to collect their savings with interest.

“Sometime in August 2016, she absconded with over N2m. We are the ones that the customers know; they don’t really know her. So, we have been struggling to refund them. She has put us in trouble. She is from Imo State. Policemen followed us to her residence in Ibafo, where we were told that she had relocated.

“We learnt that she had earlier had problem over money with some residents and was arrested by policemen from the Ibafo Police Station. But she was later released. We spoke with her on the telephone until December 2016. Suddenly, we can no longer reach her on the line. We even pleaded with her to refund the money piecemeal, she refused. Some customers who saved N1,000 on a daily basis have not been refunded at all.”