I have heard of people who say they can never save their money in the bank, instead they tend to save it at home or engage their income on other things as it comes, reason banking is not reliable. Here is a weird case point to the direction of one of the oldest banks in Nigeria, first bank. Mrs Cordelia Iwegbuna Idowu Okocha was 50 when she d#ed of breast cancer, on August 7, 2004, and was buried in September 2004. However,4 years after her de@th, she ‘visited’ her bank and withdrew more than N527,500 from her savings account in a first bank.The statement of account of the dead woman indicated that she withdrew N500,000 by ‘self ’ on February 19, 2008. On February 28, 2008, she made another withdrawal of N27,500 by ‘self’. She made all the withdrawals at the Awolowo Road branch of the bank.
She was survived by her only child, Chukwudi Uche Okocha who was 17 at the time of his mother's death. He said:
