Customers in a 'Wonder Bank',
Ayonitemi Cooperative Business Finance, located at Oniyangi, near the
Emir Road, Ilorin, Kwara State, are now reeling in pain as the operators
of the company have all absconded with their savings running into
millions of naira.
The investors were promised s
huge return on their money and many of them sold off their properties to
invest with the hope of recouping large interests, only to realise that
they were dealing with fraudsters who made away with their money.
Many of the weeping customers lamented how they had lost substantial amount of money which they deposited in the finance house.
They stated that they had been promised mouth watering financial offers if they made deposit in the bank.
One
of aggrieved customers said she received information to come on Tuesday
to collect her money which she had been depositing in the bank for many
months, claiming to have invested about N1m in the firm without her
husband’s knowledge and consent.
"I have been
depositing money in the bank for some months. They promised that they
will not disappoint us. They told us that they were from Kwara State and
they had no other place to run to.
So, I
was convinced that this bank was real. I did not even inform my husband
of my transactions with them. Unfortunately, they disappointed us and
ran away."
Other victims claimed to have lost money ranging from N100,000 to N450,000.
