MD ACCESS BANK
A High Court of the Federal
Capital Territory ( FCT ), in Bwari, Abuja, on Thursday issued a bench warrant
for the arrest of the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access
Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe and two others.
Also named in the arrest
warrant were senior official of the bank, Mrs. Neka Adogu and Access Bank Plc.
Justice Othman Musa issued the
arrest warrant after lawyer for the prosecution, Osuebeni Akposinimingha
complained of difficulty in getting Wigwe and others to attend court to answer
charges pending against them.
The Independent Corrupt
Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had last week filed a
four-count charge marked CR/32/2017 against Wigwe and others, following which
the court fixed Thursday for their arraignment.
Wigwe, Mrs. Adogu and the bank
are accused among others, of refusing to unfreeze some accounts belonging to
two customers – Blaid Construction Limited and Blaid Properties Limited, even
after a court order and a directive to that effect from the ICPC.
At the Thursday’s proceedings,
Akposinimingha said, although it was the prosecution’s responsibility to
produce the defendants in court for arraignment, the prosecution was having
constraints producing the defendants.
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