There was a mild drama when a large number of women yesterday besieged a
bank in Funtua, Katsina State to demand payment of N5,000 social
security for the poor and unemployed Nigerians that was promised by the
All Progressives Party (APC).
The women, who started trooping to
the bank’s premises as early as 7:00am, alleged that they heard an
announcement over the radio that the federal government had concluded
plans to pay the money. One of the women said she was told that
processes of the payment had commenced in the bank, Daily Trust
reported.
One of the women who simply gave her name as Sa’adiyya,
said: “A friend of mine informed me about the development last week.
She said I should come here with my national identity card. She said
when I come I will be given a form to fill.”
When
contacted, branch manager of the bank, who sought anonymity, said he was
not aware of such payment. He added that the bank was not carrying out
any registration exercise aside the Bank Verification Number (BVN) as
mandated by CBN.
“We are not holding any registration
regarding the N5,000 social security as they claimed and I think they
mistook the BVN forms we are distributing to our customers as forms for
the money. There is no basis for their claims; the women are only
working on rumours,” the branch manager said.
Daily
Trust saw the bank officials and policemen trying to persuade the
teaming women to leave the bank premises and stop obstructing banking
activities.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had in the last
two weeks at the 10th year anniversary lecture of Crescent University
Abeokuta hinted that there were ongoing plans to implement one of their
campaign promises of paying N5,000 each to the poorest Nigerians across
the
