People
in some parts of Akure are already feeling frustrated as ATM machines
in the area have stopped working due to panic withdrawals.
Some of the ATM booths were overcrowded as customers waited endlessly to withdraw money
Many were left frustrated on Friday in Akure, the Ondo State
because of the inability of many automated teller machines to dispense
cash as early as 10am, Punch reports.
The situation was worsened due to the public holiday declared by
the state government as banks did not open for operations today. The ATM
machines at Alagbaka area where almost all the banks have their
branches were not dispensing cash at around 10:30am, the report
revealed.
The frustration forced some of the customers to loiter around with
the hope that bank officials would come and load cash or rectify the
errors that prevented the machines from dispensing cash.
Blessing Hassan who came to withdraw money expressed
dissatisfaction how some of the banks treated their customers knowing
fully well that people would be in need of money during the election
period. According to her, she wasted more than an hour waiting for the
two machines at Adegbola Junction to dispense without success.
She said, “The machines around the place are not working. And I
can’t go to Alagbaka because some people came from there and told me
that the machines over there also did not dispense cash.
“This is unfair; since the bank officials knew ahead that today
(Friday) is a public holiday, they ought to have assigned some of their
workers to keep loading the machines with money and to promptly rectify
any error, to make for hitch-free operations.”
However, some of the machines resumed cash dispensing some hours after.
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