Delta State Police Command has confirmed the death of a yet-to-be identified man who slumped and died after several hours of fruitless attempt to withdraw cash at a commercial bank in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of the State.
The Quest Times gathered that the incident happened on Thursday.
The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the State, DSP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the incident noted that the deceased was in the bank to collect his ATM card.
“He was not trying to withdraw cash, he came to collect his ATM card,” he said.
The commercial and daily life activities across Nigeria have came under new pressure, as scarcity of Naira notes worsenes amidst equally worsening petrol supply crises, despite the extension of the deadline for acceptance of the old Naira notes as legal tender.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, last Sunday, made some softening adjustments to its arrangements for transitioning from the old Naira notes to the new ones by extending the deadline for stoppage of use of the old note as legal tender by ten days from January 31, 2023, to February 10, 2023, while also saying that no Nigerian would lose money on account of this change.
The apex bank said that the old notes could still be returned to the CBN after the deadline.