By Ade Jacobs
The controversy over the allegation that the Managing Director of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Adam Nuru, had an illicit affair with a married female employee of the bank, has put the integrity of the commercial bank’s boss, to public scrutiny.
The same man was also fingered in July last year of laundering the sum of N573 million for the suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu.
Tunde Thomas, husband of a former employee of FCMB was said to have died December 16, 2020, after he allegedly found out that his two children were the products of the illicit affair the bank’s boss had with his wife.
Since the news of the extra marital affair broke, the FCMB chief executive has not debunked the allegation, though the management of the bank said the matter is under investigation.
An unsigned statement, attributed to the bank said “We are aware of several stories circulating across several media platforms about our bank’s Managing Director, Adam Nuru, a former employee, Ms Moyo Thomas, and her deceased ex-husband, Mr Tunde Thomas,
“While this is a personal matter, the tragedy of the death of Mr Tunde Thomas and the allegations of unethical conduct require the bank’s board to conduct a review of what transpired, any violations of our code of ethics and the adequacy of these code of conduct ethics. This will be done immediately.”
But speaking on the matter, a former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode, wrote on his Facebook wall, that the FCMB boss has abused his office by having an affair with the wife of his subordinate. He argued that Nuhu’s misconduct led to the death of the late Thomas, who discovered that the two children he once called his own, were fathered by his wife’s boss.
Fani-Kayode: “This is the MD of FCMB. His name is Adam Nuru. He sent a good man to an early grave with his heartless and shameful actions. I repeat a good man DIED as a consequence of his reckless, wicked, heartless and irresponsible behaviour.
“There are no saints in the world and very few angels but to sleep with someone’s wife, make her pregnant twice and send him to an early grave is inexplicable & unfathomable.
“This is made all the worse by the fact that she was working for him in a large corporation where such things are not meant to happen between a Managing Director and a subordinate. He also sent over 500 million naira to Ibrahim Magu’s Pastor’s account “by mistake”. The man is filthy, seedy, disgusting, sleazy, irresponsible, dangerous and unreliable.
“He deserves far worse than just being sacked from the bank that he presently heads. Far worse! He should not only bow his head in shame but he should also be subjected to total and complete public opprobrium and banned from the company of decent and civilised men.
“He is the scum of the earth. He is worse than a leper and ought to be avoided at all costs.
“May the soul of Tunde Thomas rest in peace and may God judge ALL those that betrayed his love and trust and caused the heartbreak that led to his premature death.”
Recall last July that the managing director of the new generation bank was accused of helping Magu to launder funds, after the bank lodged N573 million into the account of Godwin Omale, an Abuja pastor with connection to the former boss of the anti-graft agency.
The accusation came on the heels of investigations of the former EFCC boss, for corruption and abuse of office, by the federal government.
The money laundry report, however, came to a head when the pastor, who said he regarded Magu as his spiritual son sued the bank for trying to smear his name by lodging the said funds into his account.
Nuru later testified before a special panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari, to investigate the ex-EFCC boss, that the amount was wrongly deposited into the pastor’s account without his knowledge.
The panel led by Justice Ayo Salami, a former President of the Court of Appeal has since recommended that Magu should be sacked.