A one-time Deputy
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Tunde Lemo is probably not finding
things easy at the moment as he has been fingered in a N25 Billion fraud, which
he allegedly perpetrated with some other people during his days in the apex
bank.
The revelation is
coming at a time Mr. Lemo, who once boasted that he would be the Governor of
the CBN someday, was planning to contest for the governorship election of his
home state, Ogun under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“What we heard was
that Mr. Tunde Lemo was involved in some shoddy deals in the bank, and that he
enjoyed the evil acts, while it lasted. I can tell you that Mr. Lemo was
accused of collecting 10% from contractors, who had dealings with the bank and
it was discovered that some contracts were inflated to cater for his own share
in his days in the bank,” said a reliable source.
The governorship
aspirant, who has allegedly gone on a spending spree to realize his ambition in
2015, was said to have gone to a prominent monarch (oba) in Lagos to intercede
with the powers that be on his behalf to save him from the accompanying consequences
of the deals and the expected public embarrassment.
Another reliable
source revealed that Mr. Lemo used part of the said money to establish a
highbrow school for his wife, and that the whole matter got to the once
powerful banker as a rude shock.
“He never
envisaged that the whole matter would be exposed, but now the deed has been
done and the anti-graft agencies have been alerted, it is certain that they are
doing their investigations and Mr. Lemo would soon be invited to tell them what
he knows about the deal,” a source told us.
This allegation
was however, punctured by sources close to the erstwhile top banker, who put
the whole thing at the doorsteps of ‘some mischievous opponents, who want to
bring this man down so that he would not achieve his political ambition.’
According to him;
“This is a cheap blackmail and you will soon discover that Mr. Tunde Lemo is
not the type that would be involved in shoddy deals. God has blessed him, he
rose through the ranks and he almost became the governor of the CBN before he
retired. He can never do such a thing and God would definitely see him through
at this trying period. Those trying to implicate him should know that truth
will definitely prevail very soon.”
Meanwhile, we also
gathered from the grapevine last week that some staffers of the CBN were
recently sacked for involving in the recycling of mutilated money that were
meant to be burnt by the apex bank.
Informed sources
revealed that the staffers, some of whom were in top positions in the bank,
stole amount of money running into millions of naira with a view to taking them
back into the system through the back door before they were eventually caught
and given the boot.
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