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Unremitted $793.2 million TSA fund: No hidden govt. funds in our custody — Keystone Bank

byBassey Udo
July 22, 2017
2 min read

The spate of denials by banks and government institutions linked with the alleged concealment of $793.3 million that should have been transferred to the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account, TSA, at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, continued on Saturday.

The latest came from Keystone Bank Limited, which denied ever having in its custody any illegally hidden money belonging to the Federal Government or any of its agencies.

“We wish to state that Keystone Bank has never illegally hidden any amount of money belonging to the Federal Government or any of its agencies,” the bank said in a statement on Saturday.

“Details of all Federal Government funds in custody of Keystone Bank had always been fully disclosed to all relevant Federal Government agencies.

At no time did Keystone Bank collude or ‎conspire with any official of the Federal Government to disobey the Federal Government directives on the TSA,” it added.

Following an application by the Attorney General of the Federation on behalf of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation against seven commercial banks, Justice Chuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos on Thursday ordered them to refund the money.

The Federal Government had accused the banks of colluding with some of its agencies, including the National Investments Management Services, NAPIMS, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to conceal the accounts.

Details of the various accounts showed that about $367.4 million was kept in United Bank for Africa, UBA; $41 million in Skye Bank; $277.9 million in Diamond Bank, $18.9 million in First Bank; $24.5 million in Fidelity Bank; $17 million in Keystone Bank, and $46.5 million in Sterling Bank.

Consequently, the court order directed the seven banks to remit the amounts in their custody to the designated Federal Government’s Asset Recovery dollars account with the CBN.

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But, since then, the NNPC denied not only concealing the controversial accounts, but also the total amounts involved.

Apart from its agency having a total of about $231.8 million (not $793.2million), Ndu Ughamadu, NNPC’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, said the accounts were in three banks, and not seven.

He gave the details of the accounts as Diamond Bank ($174.4 million), Skye Bank ($40.7 million) and Keystone Bank ($16.7 million).

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The NNPC also denied colluding to conceal the accounts, as it had already taken steps to inform all the relevant government agencies, namely the Presidency, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, AGF and the CBN of the existence of the accounts.

In its denial, UBA claimed it had fully remitted all cash belonging to the NNPC into the TSA.

United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc on Friday faulted its inclusion by the Federal High Court in Lagos, in the list of seven banks keeping a total of $793,200,000 in contravention of the Federal Government’s Treasury Single Account (TAS) policy.

The Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Bola Atta, said the remittance of the NNPC/ Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, cash to the TSA was done since August 2016.

“We wish to state categorically that UBA has fully remitted all NNPC/NLNG dollar deposits since August 24, 2016. We hereby emphasize that none of such funds are currently in the Bank’s books.

Our action was further corroborated by a clearance memo published by CBN on its website on the same date,” Mr. Atta said.

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Also, Skye Bank said on Friday that the $41 million in its custody was never illegally concealed, but was with full knowledge of the relevant authorities, namely the CBN, SSS, National Assembly and the Inspector General of Police’s Special Investigation Panel.

“The management of Skye Bank hereby states that it neither colluded nor unilaterally hid the reported sum or any other funds in its custody,” it’s spokesperson, Nduneche Ezurike, said in the statement.

“On the contrary, the said funds are held with the full knowledge of the relevant agencies of government, with whom we have engaged extensively over same,” he explained.

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