Former Nigerian Ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau, Justina Eze, has dragged a bank to court for alleged disappearance of her jewelries from their vault.
According to the court filings, Ambassador Eze is asking the bank to account for the jewelries she deposited in its vault about 24 years ago, while 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 my appointment in 1999 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, I purchased a safe deposit box for my generous collections of gold, diamond, coral beads and other materials, gave one of my daughters, Dr. Chinwe Eze-Boulhassane, to take to the banks’branch in Enugu. Eze-Boulhassane was a customer of the bank.
“Every month, the bank deducted an agreed sum from my account as service charge.
“I pray the court to give an order to compel the bank to produce the safe deposit box containing my jewelries worth over N1 billion.”
It was gathered that last week Chinwe Eze-Boulhassane brought documents in support of the deposit to court for her testimony and she was led in evidence by Chief Oke, even as the bank asked for an adjournment after listening to her evidence.
Justice Ajogwu adjourned the matter till 10th May for cross-examination of the main witness.
