GTBank frees 15 inmates in Kano

The personnel of Guaranty Trust Bank in Kano state have freed 15 inmates with minor fines in Kurmawa Central Prison, Kano. The Executive Director of the bank, Alhaji Haruna Musa, who led a delegation of the bank’s personnel, said the gesture was part of the bank’s cooperate social responsibility. Musa said the personnel raised N2m […]

The personnel of Guaranty Trust Bank in Kano state have freed 15 inmates with minor fines in Kurmawa Central Prison, Kano.

The Executive Director of the bank, Alhaji Haruna Musa, who led a delegation of the bank’s personnel, said the gesture was part of the bank’s cooperate social responsibility.

Musa said the personnel raised N2m from their salaries with a view to assisting the less privileged in hospital, prison and torrey home.

He said, “We have upset the hospital bills of many patients at Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital and freed 15 inmates at Kurmawa central prison.”

At the torrey home, Tudun Maliki, the personnel donated food items including bags of rice, beans, and cartons of maggi cube, detergent, bath soap, tissue and drinks among other items.

At Kurmawa central prison, the personnel also donated similar items to the management of the prison for onward distribution to the inmates and freed 15 inmates.

Musa urged staff of other private organisations to emulate GTBank by donating to children at Torrey home, inmates and patients in various hospitals and prisons in the state.

He said the management of the bank would sustain the tempo, as according to him the bank was just paying back the society.