Naira Redesign: Customer Slumps Inside Bank, Dies

By Adesina Soyooye

The Naira redesign and the its attendant difficulties have recorded a fatality on Friday, February 3, 2023.

A yet-to-be identified Bank Customer has slumped and died inside a bank in Delta State.

According to a report, the almost, middle-aged man had stood on the queue for hours, without being attended to, obviously, because of the crowd in the Bank.

Since the Naira redesign and its scarcity, hundreds of people usually storm banks or ATM and POS centers in a bid to withdraw money. They usually don’t succeed. They go home hungry and empty-handed.

The tragic incident took place at the Ika Local Government Area of Delta State.

The dead wore a white shirt which he tucked into a pair of black trousers and was stretched out, with his shoes removed, at the Banking Hall to the shock and pains of other customers.

Bright Edafe, Spokesperson for the Delta State Police Command, who confirmed the story, however, said the deceased was not in the bank to withdraw money but to pick his ATM Card.”

The long hours of standing on the queue must have exhausted him.