The Nigerian Army, on Sunday, called on commercial banks to deploy
Automated Teller Machines, ATM, to the military barracks in Maiduguri for the
use of front line soldiers involved in the ongoing counter-insurgency operation
in Borno.
Brig. Gen. Victor Ezugwu, the General Officer Commanding, GOC, 7
Division, made the call while speaking at a Civil-Military Forum organised by
the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri.
Ezugwu was reacting to criticisms by residents that soldiers often
refused to join queues at the ATM points in the town.
He said that the army had written several letters to the banks for the
deployment of ATM machines to the barracks without much success.
“We have been battling with the issue of lack of ATM in the barracks
for the use of soldiers in the front line zone.
“I wrote letters to the banks over seven months ago for them to deploy
the ATM at the Maimalari Cantonment for soldiers use, but there is no response
yet,” he said.
Ezugwu said that the military was concerned about the development and
urged the residents to intervene.
“I want to urge everybody here, especially traditional rulers, to help
put pressure on the banks so that they can give us ATM at the barracks and
allow you to use the ones in town.
“We are aware of the fact that everybody needs the ATM at one point or
another,” he said.
“ A soldier carrying 12 ATM cards at a time must have brought his
colleagues’ cards from the frontline to take money and send to their families
all over Nigeria.
“We have areas where there is no network, it is only through the ATM
that the soldiers can send money home to their families’ he said.
Ezugwu appealed for more understanding from the residents pending when
the ATM would be provided by the banks at the barracks.
Source: DailyPost.ng
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