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A Chinese inmate, who is serving a one-year jail term for theft in Ghana, has escaped while receiving medical care at a hospital in the capital, Accra.
Wang Xiao, the inmate, was held at the Nsawam Prison in the south of the country. Access Bank, one of Nigeria's largest banks,
He is said to have reported being sick last Wednesday and taken to a nearby hospital. has appointed a temporary replacement for CEO Herbert Wigwe, who died alongside five others
But he escaped from the hands of the prison officers who had escorted him to the health facility. in a helicopter crash last Friday.
The Ghana Prisons Service has reportedly issued a wanted re-arrest notice of the inmate, who is standing trial in another case. Bolaji Agbede, Access Bank's most senior founding executive director, will assume the CEO position in acting capacity, the bank's parent company, Access Holdings Plc, announced in a statement.
Ms Agbede joined Access Bank in 2003 and has nearly 30 years of experience in banking and business consultancy, the company said.
Wigwe's chartered helicopter was on its way from Palm Springs to Boulder City in Nevada in the US when it went down, about 96km (60 miles) from Las Vegas.
According to Nigerian media, the 57-year-old banker was on his way to Las Vegas to attend Sunday's Super Bowl.
Wigwe founded Access Bank in 1989. It became the largest bank in Nigeria in 2018 after it acquired its main competitor, Diamond Bank.
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