CECILIA IBRU SIGHTED AT THE US EMBASSY ON WHEELCHAIR

SHE CAME TO OBTAIN VISA – SOURCE

Former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic International Bank Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru was recently sighted at the US embassy on Walter Carrington Street, Victoria Island, Lagos for reasons sources attributed to her intent to renew her traveling visa.

The erstwhile Amazon of the banking world in the country, who is currently serving a jail term for embezzlement of depositors fund running into several millions of dollars as exposed by the whistle-blowing Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, visited the embassy on the 25th of January, 2011.

Mrs. Ibru was reported to have arrived the heavily fortified American embassy at about 3pm in a wheelchair and driven to the embassy by five female Prisons officials and four other of their male counterparts. Sources at the embassy hinted that Cecilia was conveyed in a Nigerian Prisons ambulance and accompanied by Toyota Hiace, with their registration plate numbers covered.

it was gathered that Mrs. Ibru was not accorded any VIP treatment by the embassy staffers and was shorn of the influences and power she exuded in her erstwhile position as Oceanic MD. Rather, she was said to have emaciated greatly, with her hyped debilitating ailment having taken a heavy toll on her. The indication that times have definitely changed for the matriarch of the Ibru dynasty was demonstrated by the embassy staffers refusing her entry into the embassy premises on her wheelchair. The staffers were reportedly uncompromising on their stance and only conveyed her in on an alternative wheelchair provided by the embassy.

Check by us revealed that the refusal of the embassy officials to allow her entry on her wheelchair was for security purposes and not connected with her present status as a convict.

The troubled Mrs. Ibru emerged an hour later, which signaled the completion of our intention at the embassy.

It will be recalled that Cecilia Ibru and some other erstwhile bank helmsmen, including those of Afribank, Finbank, Bank PHB, Union Bank were axed by the CBN for offences relating to insider abuse, embezzlement, money laundering, etc.