Nigerians, from all pieces of the country, will enter this end of the week disturbed and befuddled over the cash update strategy of the National Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
While banks stay open to get old notes till Tuesday, January 31, shortage of new naira notes and dismissal of the old notes, starting from today, by retailers and numerous deals outlets, is driving the populace into alarm mode as the cutoff time looks straight at them while as yet having a lot of the old N1,000, N500 and N200 notes.
Hardly any days on schedule, the activity had prompted disarray, as well as overextending bank laborers because of the breakdown of including machines in large numbers of the branches.
Discoveries by The Guardian showed that the breakdown of the counting machines because of weighty tension has brought about bank employees presently including monies in mass manually, making numerous clients stand by extended periods on the line prior to being taken care of.
The Guardian accumulated that not exclusively are bank laborers overextended, the wellbeing ramifications of counting ravaged notes manually stay a worry. Public President of the Public Association of Banks, Protection and Monetary Organization Workers (NUBIFIE), Anthony Abakpa, who said the circumstance has not been brought to the association's consideration, called for pay for the classifications of staff, especially the mass tellers and the notes counting officials toward the finish of the activity.
He called on businesses and the executives of banks to guarantee that specialists' wellbeing were more central, by giving them all the essential devices and Individual Defensive Hardware (PPE), like nose veils and hand gloves to shield their fingers from microbes.
This was likewise reverberated by the Public President of the Relationship of Ranking Staff of Banks, Protection and Monetary Foundations (ASSBIFI), Olusoji Oluwole, who refered to the pressure and wellbeing suggestions on laborers.
Through The Guardian
