Naira Scarcity: Aba Residents Turn Commercial Bank Premises into Fast Food Restaurant in Video

• The people of Aba have decided not to go hungry even while waiting to get money from their bank's Automated Teller Machines
• The residents of Abia state's commercial city were captured cooking and eating noodles while waiting in a queue
• A video, which was seen by Legit.ng, showed that the meal was prepared right on the premises of a commercial bank in Aba

With the prolonged cash crunch and scarcity of new notes across various states in Nigeria, citizens have devised several means to survive the ordeal.

While some chose to protest, like in Oyo state, residents in Aba, Abia state turned a commercial bank into a restaurant.

At the bank, residents were seen to have arrived in the area with the camping gas, pots and other cooking utensils.

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However, the video seen by Legit.ng did not show the moment the residents, who might have waited hours in the bank to get cash, cooked their food - noodles.

Instead, the video review showed that about four men were eating from the pot from which the noodles were prepared.

The young men took turns eating the food, and many other residents in the queue by the Automated Teller Machines in the bank watched in awe.

A voice speaking in the background of the video said that residents had been camped within the bank premises for hours with the hope of getting some cash.

The voice, which spoke in Igbo langauge said that they had waited so long that they had to prepare a meal to eat while waiting to get cash.

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Source: Legit.ng