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| CEO SunTrust Bank, Muhammad Jubrin |
SunTrust Bank has
debunked the claim that the bank failed to pay some staff of the National
Assembly who protested non-payment of their salaries on Tuesday.
It would be recalled that the protest by legislative aides was
triggered by the death of Hassan Abiodun, an aide to the Deputy Speaker, Yusuf
Suleiman as they blamed the death on non-payment of salaries.
However, SunTrust on Wednesday debunked claim in some quarters
that the bank has held on to their salaries without paying them.
Executive Director, Finance and Risk Management of the Bank, Mr.
Usman Abdulqadir who briefed newsmen on behalf of the CEO, Mr. Muhammad Jibrin
at the bank’s office in Lagos said the Bank had duly “executed all mandates
given to it with respect to making payment on behalf of its customers
promptly”.
He said as banker to some National Assembly accounts, the Bank
“has received the mandate to make payments to various beneficiaries and those
payments have since been relayed, some via REMITA, to the relevant banks”.
“We advise that any persons who are yet to receive payments
executed by us should first check with his/her bankers to trace where such
payments are held. We categorically restate that we do not fail to honour any
obligation to our clients”, Abdulqadir added.
The bank however commiserated with the immediate family and the
entire NASS family on the death of the staff, adding that the deceased did not
have account with the bank.
The ED said the bank, launched in August last year with over
10,000 accounts being managed, remains the only commercial institution that had
made financial inclusion its number one priority, saying, “We have always
carried out our mandates with integrity and promptness required”.
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