Scores of residents
of Akure were frustrated on Friday
following the inability of many automated teller machines to dispense cash as
early as 10am.
The public holiday
declared by the state government worsened the situation because bank customers
could only rely on the ATMs for cash withdrawals.
Our correspondent
observed that some of the ATMs
at Alagbaka area where almost all the banks have their branches were not
dispensing cash at around 10:30am.
Some of the
frustrated customers loitered around the machines, while some sat close to
the device in anticipation that bank officials would come and load cash or
rectify the errors that prevented the machines from dispensing cash.
The situation is
not different at Oyemekun Road, as the ATMs located there were either
not functioning or had run out of cash as at 11:30am.
One of the
customers who expressed frustration at the malfunctioning ATMs, Blessing
Hassan, said she had spent more than an hour waiting for the two machines at
Adegbola Junction to dispense without success.
Hassan said she
needed the money to buy things in preparation for the election holding on
Saturday.
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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