ECOBANK OFFICIAL BOLTS WITH GH¢38,000 (PAGE 3)

A cash mobilisation officer of the Takoradi branch of the Ecobank, Ghana, has allegedly bolted with more than GH¢38,000 he collected on behalf of the bank from a customer for deposit.
The suspect, Prosper Kwame Amedior, also known as Prosper King-Quame, was a temporary employee and was to be confirmed this week as a permanent staff.
As part of his duties, he was to collect the weekly sales from companies that were unable to send their money to the banking hall due to the volume of their sales and their busy schedules.
According to a police source, Amedior was assigned that day to the Takoradi branch of V-Mobile, dealers in MTN mobile prepaid top-up cards, and collected GH¢38,450 but failed to deposit the money into the client’s account.
It said the suspect had also abandoned his post and vacated his residence in Takoradi together with his family to an unknown destination.
The police said Amedior after collecting the money issued the right pay-in slip but told officials of V-Mobile that he had forgotten to bring along the ledger in which to record the amount collected, promising to bring it the next day.
The police said when the suspect returned to the offices of Ecobank, he also told the officer in-charge that when he got to V-Mobile, there was a power cut, therefore, there was no transaction, since they were not able to count the money.
The source said the act was not detected until the Branch Manager, who was then on his annual leave, returned and realised that the number of transactions on the reconciliation statement was less than what normally pertained.
In his statement to the police, the Branch Manager said he called the clients and requested them to fax the pay-in slips to them and it was upon receipt of them that he detected why Amedior had vacated his post without informing anybody.
According to the police, the accountant of the company has been invited by the police to help them in their investigation.
The officials of V-Mobile expressed shock at the news.
The story was confirmed by the Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Olivia Adiku, who said the police were still investigating.