Details: Cash Crisis Forces Bankers To Adopt New Style Of Dressing

The cash crisis occasioned by the redesign of Naira notes has also impacted on the dressing style of many bankers SocietyNow.Ng gathered.

The checks by SocietyNow.Ng revealed that banks have adopted a dress-down policy for their workers.

“The policy cuts across all cadres but is non-negotiable for those that have direct dealings with the mass market” SocietyNow.Ng gathered.

The added information available has it that the change in the dressing style is to help make bank workers a lesser target of possible attacks.

Banks have been the targets of violent attacks including the burning of branches and personal properties of workers and attempts of physical harm since the cash crisis started.

“Aggrieved persons” unable to get the desired amount of cash from their accounts over the counter and from Automated Teller Machines (ATM) hold the banks and by extension, the workers responsible and resort to inflicting violence on them in expressing anger. 

Bank workers usually stand out in their offices and other places with their traditional well-to-do – corporate attires.

“Dressing down makes them to blend with everyday people within the banks and other places and makes them less of a target of physical harm” SocietyNow.Ng learned.

The cash crisis is brought about by the availability of limited redesign Naira notes -N1,000, N500 and N200 – in the Nation’s heavily cash-based mass markey coupled with widespread rejection of the old notes – N1,000 and N,500 –  that have been declared illegal by Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele backed by President Muhammadu Buhari despite a contrary ruling by the Supreme Court.