Hotel cashier nabbed for allegedly stealing N3.3m in Enugu

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The Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arraigned one Florence Okorie before Justice H.O Eya of the State High Court Enugu State, on a three count charge bordering on stealing of the sum of N3.3 million.


The suspect, a cashier at Nice and Cool Hotel, Enugu was accused of converting to personal use the sum of N3,320,000.00 belonging to one Mr Nnaemeka Nnamani, the owner of the hotel.

It was gathered that in 2016, information reached the complainant that the accused, Florence Okorie of Obeagu Amechi, Awkunanaw, Enugu State who had worked in his hotel as a cashier for eight years had all the while, been converting the hotel’s proceeds to her personal use.


The compalianant decided to place close supervision on her and precisely on 14th Dec, 2016 he received a call that the accused was in bank making transaction and he quickly went to meet her.

On reaching the bank, the petitioner discovered that the defendant had deposited the sum of N300,000 into her personal account and when asked the source of the money she said it was given to her by somebody she could not reveal, hence the petition to EFCC.

Further investigations by the Commission revealed that though the defendant was paid N7,000 (Seven Thousand Naira) monthly as salary at inception, she had unfettered access to funds and records/accounts book of the hotel. She was also found to have over N9,700,000(Nine Million,Seven Hundred Thousand Naira) withdrawn from her account with which it was believed, she used to procure a landed property, ‘Keke’ tricycle, a shop and a seven-room apartment at Obeagu Amechi.