Increasing Cases Of Extortion By Security Guards At Nnewi Banks

The Coronavirus brought with it a lot of changes in our way of life; the world is in a lot of pain, there is loss of lives, jobs, properties yet some people have found a way to rip people off their hard earned money.It has become a norm to queue outside the bank in a bid to reduce the number of persons in the banking hall at a time. The rule is to take a number and wait your turn, however some bank security men have turned this to a money making venture.

The security officials at first bank located at bank road nnewi will reserve No 1 to 50 for their special clients. Even if you show up at 6am you will be number 51. When they sight those potential special customers, they give them a closer number in exchange for N500 or N1000 depending on the customer’s bargaining strength leaving those who have been there the whole day waiting and grumbling in agony. They observe discretion while doing this so only the very observant notice something is wrong.

Zenith bank however, are a lot more lackadaisical, they do not care if the waiting customers are angry or sad or yelling. They will walk briskly to their con-clients, make the exchange and walk the client majestically into the bank.

Access bank security men have at this point turned gods, before now, the security men would courteously open the banking door with a smile and a “welcome to access bank”. More recently, that has been quickly exchanged with bitterness, resentment and a high level of godism. They also have a very fishy mode of operation that needs to be reshuffled. They call those for transfer, then later those for withdrawal and back to transfer leaving the clients for deposits and customer care cursing them. For their own good, they should review their processes and adopt a better organized form of calling customers into the bank.

If you are making illegal money off people with the excuse of “opportunity” provided by the COVID-19 pandemic, you are just as unfortunate as the government you criticize. The corruption stemming from the security posts at the banks in Nnewi is disgusting and should be checkmated.