Former Nigerian Ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau, Justina Eze, has sued First Bank for the disappearance of her jewellery from the bank’s vault.
Ambassador Eze, in the court filings, demanded that the bank account for the jewellery she deposited in its vault about 24 years ago, and paying service charges.
Eze, in a suit before Justice Chinyere Ajogwu of the Enugu State High Court, through her lawyer, Chief Olusola Oke (SAN), said after her appointment in 1999 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, she purchased a safe deposit box for her generous collection of gold, diamond, coral beads and other materials, gave one of her daughters, Dr. Chinwe Eze-Boulhassane, to take to the bank’s branch in Enugu. Eze-Boulhassane was a customer of the bank.
Every month, the bank deducted an agreed sum from her account as a service charge.
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She prayed the court to give the order to compel the bank to produce the safe deposit box containing her jewellery worth over N1 billion.
Chinwe Eze-Boulhassane, last week, brought documents in support of the deposit to court for her testimony. She was led evidence by Chief Oke. After listening to her evidence, the bank asked for an adjournment.
Justice Ajogwu adjourned the matter till 10 May for cross-examination of the main witness.