By Ishaya Ibrahim
Nigerian activists, led by Segun Awosanya, popularly known as Segalink, have threatened various actions against Nigerian banks, beginning with First Bank for negligence which caused a customer to lose his laptop and other belongings.
The customer, John Cine Wilcox, a video editor, had in August 2018, visited the Isheri Ojodu branch of the First bank where the security asked him to deposit his belongings in their locker, which included a laptop, hard drive, cameras and other devices.
After obeying, he came out minutes after to discover that the locker was left ajar and his belongings disappeared.
All attempts he made to get the bank to replace the stolen devices which was caused due to their negligence, failed.
Segalink got involved in the struggle to help the young Nigerian get replacement of his stolen gadgets, the bank refused to budge.
He then tweeted: “The Elephant will change again when we are done. How could you people treat human beings like this at this difficult time?
“They kept managing him with false hope. Bouncing him from the Bank manager to the insurance manager and CBN Liaison too kept him on. Where on earth is social justice? Is this how we will allow our citizens to be treated by the BiG Banks?
“In the spirit of #SocialJustice, I will be calling out @FirstBankngr by the end of the day. We have tried dialogue and informed @cenbank (Central Bank) of their gross negligence but they have refused to prioritize the case in question. We will be filing & going public @citizen_gavel #GrossNegligence,” he said.
The Tweet by the activist cum social media influencer has triggered a whole scale campaign against bank fraud, with many customers relieving the experiences they had with different banks.
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