BVN Registration Leads To Physical Assault In Enugu

 

According to the Punch,  Customers flooded the premises of an old generation bank, located in the Independence Layout area of Enugu on Thursday, June 25, in a bid to beat the deadline of bank account registration which is due to take effect on the 30th of June, 2015.

 

Tension arose when security personnel and operations staff of the financial institution asked some customers to go outside the banking hall to wait their turn. About 100 customers, who had been at the bank since 6am, had trooped into the banking hall when the doors were opened by 8am.

In a bid to maintain order, the bank officials asked the first 10 among the customers to fill the BVN forms and join about 30 others who did not complete the registration the previous day.

The other customers were told to leave the banking hall, and wait outside, but the directive did not go down well with the customers, who protested, causing commotion in the banking hall.

The situation degenerated into a full blown fight when some customers violently resisted an attempt by the bank officials to lead them out of the banking hall.

In the ensuing fracas, a young man engaged an armed riot policeman, who was attached to the bank, in a fight, while another customer exchanged blows with a bank worker. The incidenec became highly chaotic as some customers seized the opportunity of the confusion to jump the queue while the security men on duty forcefully held them back.

 

This attracted the attention of the branch manager of the bank who offered to open the bank on Saturday for the customers to continue with their registrations.

 

Failure to get the Bank Verification Number (BVN) before the deadline would lead to the bank account being frozen.