Protest: ATMs Deserted as Customers Flee for Safety

By Olaitan Oye-Adeitan

The long queues of customers who had waited endlessly at the ATM points for new naira notes had vanished following the protest that rocked some parts of Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday over lingering fuel and naira scarcity.

Customers had daily waited at the ATM points hoping to withdraw money but to no avail.

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However many banks were deserted as customers left the ATM for their safety.

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Only a few customers were however sighted waiting by the ATM with the hope that the machine could meet their long-awaited desire of cashing the new naira notes.

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Since the beginning of the week, bank customers had been besieging the Automated Teller Machines, ATM and had been keeping vigils or resuming as early as five O’clock in the morning for the withdrawal of new naira notes.