ASSBIFI Order Shutdown of Banks in Attack Areas Until Normalcy Restored
By: Ogunleye Oluwapelumi
Association of Senior Staff Of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, on Friday ordered a sit at home for all bank staff and workers following the recent attacks on their lives and facilities by angry protesters on the scarce new Naira Notes.
In a statement released by the national presidential, Olusoji Oluwole, he said,” the national secretariat has been inundated with reports of threats and attacks on lives of members and bank branches, and subsequently been on the field to monitor the report.
“We issued warnings and appeal to government to provide security measure for the safety of lives and properties of our members within and around the bank premises, but regrettably the attacks have continued without any form of security for the safety of our members, and the recent being the attack today, Friday 17th February on one bank branch of Epe, Lagos state.
“We cannot leave the lives and properties of our members exposed to obvious danger.
“Consequently, all members should immediately stay away from work in any State where bank branches are attacked. This is to continue every day until normalcy is restored”Olusoji concluded.
The president in an earlier press conference suggested that alternatives such as encouraging digital penetration, monitoring and sanctioning outlets that have been verified to shut down the use of alternative means of payments, causing them to demand cash, which eventually finds their way into the hands of currency traders.
