Protesters in Benin City the capital of Edo State have set two commercial banks on fire to register their anger of scarcity of naira.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports the protesters hinged their actions on hardship caused by none availability of new notes in the state.
The angry customers who pleaded with the Central Bank and the federal government to extend the date of final disengagement of old notes to allow citizens exhaust the old notes in circulation resulted to burning the banks threatening that more banks will be set ablaze.
As at the time of filling in this report the angry customers are building up enough numbers to enable them match to the CBN office located at Akpakpava around the Ring road to burn it down to protest the hardship faced by indigenes of the state.
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