The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC)has denounced the media report by the Peoples’ Gazette and Sahara Reporters regarding allegations of financial impropriety involving one of its staff.
It would be recalled that some media reports making the rounds on June 23, alleged that a manager in charge of an enterprise risk unit at the NDIC, Aisha Sadiq Odariko and Mohammed Kyari Dikwa, a retired permanent secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, conspired to run a fraud ring involving the sum of $76 million.
A statement by the Director, Communications and Public Affairs Department of NDIC, Mr. Bashir Nuhu stated that the Corporation was already assessing the veracity of the reported incident and the alleged events were unrelated to the operations of the Corporation.
According to the Corporation, it discovered from its preliminary investigations into the allegations, that the staff member in question was previously employed at a commercial bank as an account officer to the Federal Government Official referenced in the report before joining the NDIC in 2017.
The statement reads in part:
“The attention of the Management of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has been drawn to the media report by the Peoples’ Gazette and Sahara Reporters regarding allegations of financial impropriety involving one of our staff members.
“We would like to emphasize that while we are assessing the veracity of the reported incident, the alleged events are unrelated to the operations of the Corporation.
“Following our preliminary investigations into the allegations, we have discovered that the staff member in question was previously employed at a commercial bank as an account officer to the Federal Government Official referenced in the report before joining the NDIC in 2017.
“It is important to note that during her tenure at the bank, she asserts that she was not involved in any improper financial transactions with anyone.
” However, we remain diligent in our pursuit of any contradictory information and will not hesitate to take appropriate action should it arise concerning the staff member involved.
“The NDIC maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards financial impropriety and any actions that contravene our core values, corporate culture, and code of conduct.
“We wish to emphasize that the NDIC is committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in our corporate governance practices, which we have diligently cultivated over the past three decades of our existence in fulfilling our role of depositor protection and contributing to financial system stability”.
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