...... Was later released after spending months in Jail

BY NJIDEKA AGBO



A woman identified as Rosemary Godday has been released from Kirikiri maximum prison in Lagos following an investigation into her case of “forgery”.


Rosemary Godday and Adejoke of Flemer Project Initiative


According to Flemer Project Initiative (@the_flemer), an initiative which offers “free legal services to indigent awaiting trial detainees in Nigeria”, Godday, who sells fish and raincoats at Bar Beach and allegedly suffers from a communication deliquency had opened an account with an undisclosed bank and deposited over a million naira.

When she went to collect some money, she had “issues with disparity between her names with the bank and her real name” causing them to request that she gets an affidavit and that is where her problem began.



Read the complete story here

“Late December 2018, Rosemary Godday, was sent to jail for owning a Bank Account. If you think this Sounds ridiculous, then you better go ahead to read the full story.

Before her arrest and consequent incarceration last December, Rosemary was a trader or better put, a hustler. She worked on the bar-beach as a fish seller, barbecue vendor, raincoats seller amongst other petty businesses that fetched her daily income.

While doing her business, she had a number of Bank Accounts, but was depositing the bulk of her money in a personal savings Account with a Commercial Bank that we’d rather not mention at the moment.

Last year, she had issues with disparity between her names with the bank and her real name e.g Roseline instead of Rosemary. So she went ahead to swear an affidavit to that effect.

Surprisingly, when she returned to the Bank with the sworn Affidavit, the bank refused to acknowledge her as the owner of the Account. This was done despite the fact that her signature matched the one on other official documents relating to the Bank Account in question.

The Bank not only denied her access to her Account, but in fact went ahead to arrest her for ‘fraud’ and forgery.

It didn’t take long for Rosemary to realize that all the money in her Account had vanished into thin air. Yes, someone had emptied her Account. According to her, the money in question was at least a million Naira (she strongly believes it’s actually much more).

This was how Rosemary found herself in police detention. She was eventually charged for forgery and stealing and has been in prison custody since December 2018.

We met Rosemary at Kirikiri female Prison during our visit in May and decided to take on her case.

Today was the second time we would be appearing in court as her legal Counsel. During our first appearance in court, the prosecution counsel failed to produce his complainant and the IPO/Witnesses.

Today, the Prosecution Counsel who apparently had no case against this lady, wanted to get another adjournment as neither the complainant nor any of the supposed witnesses appeared in court again. The Legal Counsel from FLEMER representing Rosemary wasn’t having any of this today

She instead requested for the magistrate to strike out the case, seeing that the prosecution was obviously not ready to proceed with the case and it will amount to injustice for the young lady to be sent back to jail. The magistrate obliged and went ahead to strike out the case.

Right now, Rosemary is a free woman, but she is still heartbroken as she has lost her life’s savings, has been unjustly incarcerated for owning a Bank Account and has to start all over again.

While we explore legal avenues to help her get justice over her missing funds, Rosemary still needs all the help she can get from the public.

Note: many of the details of this story are missing because the woman in question has some communication delinquency, which makes it difficult for her to communicate except the listener is really patient and understanding. We strongly believe this medical condition must have made it easier for her to be framed and unjustly left to rot in jail. Sigh �”

At the time of filing this report, Flemer Project Initiative is yet to respond to Guardian Life’s request for more information.

https://m.guardian.ng/life/woman-jailed-in-kirikiri-for-opening-an-account-released/

na wa ooo ......Dat bank wicked oooo upon all her proof....dem still jail her

she needs a good and sound lawyer to arque her case

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This is outrageous. The bank should be dragged to court for stealing and making this poor woman suffer unjustly.

What name did she use in opening her bank account. Her money can't just vanish like that?

Something is not adding up in this story. Didn't she do a bvn? Wasn't her picture on the mandate in the said bank? Somebody is not telling the truth.

This calls for forensic investigation and if the woman is right, her balance should be restored by the bank and compensstion paid for her incarceration.

We have some criminal banks in 9ja.

Godday sha

Stupid news, stupid headline

I thought there is BVN

nams77:
Something is not adding up in this story. Didn't she do a bvn? Wasn't her picture on the mandate in the said bank? Somebody is not telling the truth.

This calls for forensic investigation and if the woman is right, her balance should be restored by the bank and compensstion paid for her incarceration.

You mean you read that lenghty post?

You need a job bro

nams77:
Something is not adding up in this story. Didn't she do a bvn? Wasn't her picture on the mandate in the said bank? Somebody is not telling the truth.

This calls for forensic investigation and if the woman is right, her balance should be restored by the bank and compensstion paid for her incarceration.

true

bank managers do the worst these days. Bankers help outsiders steal money from account of people banking with them. Mehn it's hard living in this country.

Forgery.... Where's kemi.?

And you refused to name the bank? why so?

Sorry na 9ja things are hard

The story doesn't add up.

Which way?!



The bank no try o

The bank manager should be arrested base on intelligent report

Yawns...

No bank will arrest her for such nonsense.
Name change is very common.

Did she do BVN?
Whose name and picture was on it?

So, Rosemary abi Roseline that has almost a million in her account, couldn't get her name right?

When opening the account, what ID did she use? Because it doesn't seem like a Tier1 acct, considering her supposed balance. That is me assuming she has been running the acct.

I can't read the whole story
But what I know is that we are all mad in this country
Imagine hardened criminals out dia roaming someone's mum have been in detention since last year police the bank and the prison officers euna fada��

Why are they protecting the bank's identity?

Something ain't adding up, since the judge has now struck off the case, what the heck is the bank doing with her money? Shouldn't this be grounds for them to return it and deal with their insurance company?

saasala:


You mean you read that lenghty post?

You need a job bro

So an employed person should not relax and read NL posts at past 8 at night?

Talk about illogical thinking.

nams77:
Something is not adding up in this story. Didn't she do a bvn? Wasn't her picture on the mandate in the said bank? Somebody is not telling the truth.

This calls for forensic investigation and if the woman is right, her balance should be restored by the bank and compensstion paid for her incarceration.

Rightly said. You don’t need to solicit for public support to raise money for her, what you need is get the bank to restore the woman’s balance and pay her the compensation she deserves.

nams77:
Something is not adding up in this story. Didn't she do a bvn? Wasn't her picture on the mandate in the said bank? Somebody is not telling the truth.

This calls for forensic investigation and if the woman is right, her balance should be restored by the bank and compensstion paid for her incarceration.

Lies.... Lies.... Lies
Wondering if people just think Nigerians are fool. All of a sudden, there was name disparity in the said account. Then name of the bank witheld, so the bank won't be able to sue the so called organisation bah. All this one na propaganda

A case of man's Inhumanity to a fellow man as someone took advantage of her handicapp to loot her money and send her to prison as a cover up. The culprit needs to be found out.

Go ahead and sue the hell out of that bank. They must vomit that money or heads will roll.
I just love this kind of trouble but...

I can only pray she has someone available to fight for her. It disgusts me how people suffer unjustly because nobody will speak or fight for them.

This story is just not adding up .whose passport is on the mandate ?? Whose BVN is attached to the Account?? Mehn money don't easily get lost in the bank anymore without a trace

Make una talk true jare

If the story is true let her go to brekete family radio in Abuja popularly called hembelembe and report the matter...they will recover her money and the bank will pay for fraudulent activities

I took my time to read this. Justice should be served here. she can't just go through that in vain.

I swear I know the bank wety fit do something Like that.I no just want talk BT if I vex I go talk.