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In Lagos, Customer Engages Police Officer In Wrestling Bout
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In Warri, Delta State, Bank Officials Scaled through Fence To Escape Customers’ Wrath
The new naira notes policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has triggered nation wide protest as bank customers now engage security operatives hired to maintain orderliness in wrestling match.
A female customer who gave her name as Atinuke at the Union Bank, Ketu branch, Lagos haven exhausted her patience, engaged both the Police and security officers detailed to maintain orderliness in wrestling match in her bid to gain access into the bank.
Atinuke who was ready for a showdown was dressed in brown T-shirt and tight fitting trousers, told the New Diplomat that she came to resolve the mystery behind her trapped business capital on transit but has been refusing access into the bank for three weeks running by the security operatives she referred to as “overzealous.”
Hear her:”I’m a trader. I made a Seventy thousand naira (₦70,000) to my customer through the PoS but the transaction failed.
For the past twenty one days, I have been coming to rectify the transaction but the security officers here won’t allow me into the bank even when the transaction has exceeded the maximum ten working days.
Already, my business is gradually crumbling as my capital is trapped. The matter must end today.”
Her case was not entertaining as Officials of one of the big four banks, PTI road branch in Effurun, Warri, Delta State who jumped through the fence to escape the wrath of rampaging customers.
In video sighted by the New Diplomat, both female and male personnel of the bank who visibly apprehensive, grabbed the ladder to aid their escape from the bank premises.
In Benin, the Edo State capital, protesters reportedly pulled down ATM machines strategically located in the city to facilitate easy transaction.
Few banks which made bold to render services, had difficult in controlling the huge number customers who besieged the bank to access the new naira notes.
In Aba, Abia State, angry traders reportedly exchange blows with security operatives in order to gain access into the bank.
Angry traders were reportedly sighted cooking noodles in one of the bank branch at the Ariaria International Market in Aba.
In Ibadan, Oyo State rampaging customers reportedly engaged police officers and bank security officers in fisticuffs.
It was reported that a stray bullet from the barrel gun of a trigger happy police officer knocked down a bystander, suspected to be a bank customer.
