Residents of Ipaja, Ayobo and Environs Appeal to GTB, Diamond Banks and Others for More Cash Points*

For the residents of Ipaja, Ayobo, Aiyetoro and environs the essence of the Automated Teller Machines (ATM) is grossly undermined as residents most time either spend hours on the usual long queues or have to travel kilometres to Iyana-ipaja or Egbeda before assessing any of the ATMs to carry out their transactions.
A drive through Ipaja and Ayobo reveals that these densely populated areas have not more than two major ATM points that has the job of providing services for hundreds of residents of this environs. One of the residents simply identified as Chuks who spoke to our correspondent said that for years they have been made to go through untold hardship in other to carry out any banking transaction through the ATMs; noting that he wonders how these banks operate or assess locations before locating a branch. With a combine population of over 500,000, these axes of the state is big enough to attract all the banks to have branches if not a full fledge one but mega cash points or galleria of ATMs so as to ease the pains of their innocent customers desirous of banking transactions. This will further boost the cashless policy the government is emphasising. He continued by saying that Ayobo is peaceful and secured enough to have their investment and equipment protected and which will have a multiplier effect of easing undue pressure on their
branches around. He continued, take a drive around Lagos metropolis you will see where some
ATMs are installed without adequate patronage while here in Ayobo, you have few ATMs with over
Hundreds queuing to use them; Ayobo, a home to a private university, a headquarter to one of the fastest growing pentecostals churches in Nigeria and the world at large is gradually becoming a hub by the neighbouring Ogun State Communities like Aiyetoro, Lafenwa up to Itele that come here to use ATM; which is not enough for Ayobo Communities. He reiterated how he had had cause to drive down to Ikeja on a
Public Holidays and weekend just to use ATM, on one of such days no ATM in Ayobo was dispensing,
I drove to Akowonjo only to see people from this area on the queue; my best option at that moment was to drive to Ikeja where I spent no time to transact but incurred unnecessary cost and stress.
The Alimohso Mail Newspaper; the host of The Alimosho Economic summit 2017 as a crusader for developments in Alimosho Federal Constituency joins to appeal to banks to come to terms with reducing the stress of doing business in Alimosho by the provision of adequate facilities which we are sure will be of mutual benefits.