18 LCC Staff detained on suspicion of fraud

The Lekki Concession Company Limited has handed 18 toll collectors to the police for inquiry, accused of defrauding it with enormous amounts of cash.



Mubashiru Hassan, the managing director of LCC who announced this in a declaration on Wednesday, July 31st, said the staff impacted took benefit of the operational hitches that took place in January to perpetrate some heavy procedures at the Admiralty Circle Toll Plaza in Lekki, Lagos.



According to him, after the hitches were resolved in June, the operations department conducted an audit and found some anomalies in transactions, such as transaction unblock main abuse and non-compliance, Including obtaining cash from clients without handling cars and failing to issue toll payments to clients after payment has been received.

"Other offenses included sabotage of toll equipment; non-compliance with controls and operating procedures, including the use of personal phones in booths; processing of vehicles on the profile of another person; and recording and accounting for low traffic during peak periods," the statement said.

Hassan was cited as stating that the impacted employees were questioned as a result of the finding and a supervisory commission was established to investigate the matter.

He said, "Out of the 56 suspected staff members, six were exonerated and 18 were charged in the first batch and handed over to the police on 11 July 2019 for further investigation, while the remaining 32 are still being questioned internally before decisive action will be taken against them in accordance with the company's disciplinary policies. The leadership of the LCC will never accept any fraudulent act and will deal decisively with such conduct. "He defined the employees impacted as unrepentant as" they did not see what they did as a criminal offence.
Instead, they went on social media to malign the leadership staff's expertise and personality, particularly the operations department managing director and executives, who researched and unravelled the fraudulent act, "Hassan said.