Some staff of a popular Nigerian bank have been spotted escaping from the bank’s premises through a fence in an attempt to avoid the wrath of their disgruntled customers.
The frightened staff were captured in their numbers scaling the fence with the help of a ladder at their closing hour.
Watch the video below…
As Dailypost.ng reports, Nigeria’s currency crisis has taken a new twist as some commercial banks shut down their operations on Monday over possible mob attacks from frustrated customers.
Also, financial experts disclosed that the ongoing crisis is self-inflicted.
For the past weeks, Nigerians have suffered from the pain of Naira scarcity.
The crisis might worsen if there is no significant improvement in the supply of the new currency nationwide as the February 10 deadline to phase out the old notes draws closer.
Customers have begun to act aggressively at the counters and cubicles of Automated Teller Machines, ATMs, a development that led some banks to beef up their premises with more security personnel and eventually shut down on Monday.
The aggression over the weekend recorded attacks in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, where the facility of a Wema Bank was vandalised by an angry mob, while at the University of Benin, there was a face-off between students and military men over withdrawals at the ATM, a development that led to vandalism.
DAILY POST gathered that some banks in Lagos, Osun, and other States shut down their operations as a precaution against mob attacks and asset vandalism.
A manager of a Tier-1 bank, known as Bello Muyiwa, disclosed that due to fear of mob action from customers, “we’ve decided to shut all operations except ATM services for the time being”.
Although the commercial banks have denied hoarding the naira notes, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, caught a bank manager in Abuja for refusing to load its ATM with N29 million new notes on Monday.
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