The PUNCH had on Tuesday exclusively
reported that at least five million bank accounts had been blocked by the
banks.
The NIBSS, owned by the CBN and commercial
banks in the country, is the technical organisation appointed by the central
bank and the Bankers’ Committee to be in charge of the BVN project.
The NIBSS, in an emailed response to
enquiries by our correspondent on Tuesday, stated that only 14.4 million BVNs
had been linked to bank accounts out of the total of 21 million BVN holders in
the country.
The organisation absolved itself of
blame for the delay in linking the BVNs to bank accounts, saying only the banks
had the details of their customers and could therefore link the numbers to the
accounts.
The Head, Corporate Communications,
NIBSS, Lilian Phido, said the organisation and the CBN had done several public
enlightenment campaigns to educate customers on the BVN process, adding that
failure to register and link the BVN at the banks could not have been caused by
the organisation.
Meanwhile, long queues of customers
seeking to obtain and verify their BVNs persisted in banking halls across the
country on Tuesday, leading to chaotic situations in most of the branches.
For most part of the banking hours
on Tuesday, officials battled to manage the crowd of customers at most of the
bank branches visited by our correspondent in Lagos.
Reports indicated that similar
situations prevailed in Abuja, Port Harcourt and other major cities in the
country.
Branches of First Bank of Nigeria
Limited, Access Bank Plc, Ecobank Nigeria Plc, Diamond Bank and Guaranty Trust
Plc visited by our correspondent in Lagos were filled with customers seeking to
obtain and verify their BVNs.
At some of the branches, bank
officials were heard advising some of the customers to go to the lenders’
websites to link the BVNs to their accounts.
They also asked them to send SMS to
certain numbers and the BVNs would be linked to their bank accounts.
However, the angry customers refused
and insisted on staying in the queues until the problems were resolved and
their bank accounts reactivated.
“They have blocked my bank accounts
and I cannot access money and they are telling me to come back. How will I get
money to do the basic things I want to do? These people are not serious,” a
customer was heard saying at a bank branch in Surulere.
Further findings by our
correspondent showed that the DMBs had on Monday unblocked several accounts
from the over five million they had blocked on Saturday night when the deadline
expired.
Our correspondent found out that a
significant number of the affected customers had their bank accounts activated
immediately after filing the BVN verification forms.
Meanwhile, banking sources told our
correspondent that most banks were planning to introduce weekend services to
enable the customers to register and obtain their BVNs.
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