Benin Residents Decry ATMs’ Failure To Dispense Cash

Long queues surfaced at bank cash points known as the Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and Points of Sale (PoS) in Benin City, Edo State capital, The Tide reports
Most of the machines had failed to dispense cash during the Yuletide with scores of residents returning home disappointed.
Some of the respondents who spoke in separate interviews described the situation as frustrating and unfortunate.
According to them, most of the machines in the city have not been dispensing cash since Friday night, a situation which has resulted in spending long hours in the queue at the few ATMs that were working.
Peter Ojo, who said he was unable to get cash from the machines he visited on Friday night, regretted that the situation had not changed as at Christmas morning.
“It is a very `funny’ thing that the banks did not make contingency plans for a period like this,” he said.
For Mr. Osagie Mathew, he said he had been in the queue since 6.00 a.m. on Wednesday waiting to cash money for the Christmas celebration.
He said: “I have been to more than six ATM machines of different banks but the same thing applies to all: unable to dispense cash.