I Didn’t Allow Cash Withdrawals – Commissioner C’River Responds to Robbery Attack on Finance Director
Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Senator Stephen Odey, stated the Ministry’s Director-General for Finance, Dr. Dennis Usibe, by no means licensed the withdrawal of money from banks.
Ushibe stated on Wednesday that two suspected robbers in army uniform adopted him from a financial institution on Calabar Road to the premises of the Ministry of Education, adjoining to Governor Bassey Otu’s workplace, and made off with cash stated to be within the hundreds of thousands of naira. After being disposed of, he was shot useless.
However, Mr Odey stated in a phone dialog that the cash should have been round 500,000 Naira as a substitute of the estimated 30 million Naira. He stated he didn’t signal the test to authorize the cost.
He claimed to have been knowledgeable in regards to the go to to the financial institution, including that he was with the governor and members of the Yache tribe when the incident occurred.
Usibe admitted that he was attacked by robbers whereas his automobile was parked on the premises of the ministry.
Meanwhile, the finance chief was rushed to the Naval Reference Hospital and later taken to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital the place the bullet was eliminated however his situation is claimed to be secure.
Source: dailypost.ng