Civil servants, artisans, and others on Monday besieged branches of commercial banks in different parts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as the 28-day lockdown of the FCT meant to curtail the
spread of COVID-19 ended.
In some of the banks, large canopies were erected outside for bank customers to sit down and wait for their turns while they were being allowed into the banking floors in batches.Similarly, scenario played out with those using the ATM as customers are only given access to the booths in batches of five or six at a time.
A bank customer, Peter Chidi, who spoke with our correspondent at a bank in Wuse 2, said he arrived the bank early in the morning because he envisaged the crowd.
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