 At a bid to address the long-cursing scarcity of cash at a automated tele-machine nationwide, the CBN directed banks to begin paying a maximum of 20,000 aria off the newly designed note over the counter to customers. Despite the directive given by the APICS bank to Kimashu banks, the customers say the banks are yet to heed the other. Our correspondent Paul Judge reports. On Lagos Island, long-curses continue at the ATMs of commercial banks. Customers jostle to get money as people on the ground are ensuring that no one makes more than one withdrawal session. Customers say the scarcity of cash is making life unbearable for them. I'm coming from inside the hall right now. Even the hall is not even helping issues. I learned the CBN said they should be giving us 25,000 on the counter but they are not giving. They said there is no money there. How do you want to force them? A guy was there saying that when he comes back he's going to scatter the old bank and all this stuff. People are getting frustrated by today. Is there any sign that there will be election at all? We can't be stopping from fuel issue, we are now stopping from currency issue as well. Two issues at the same time. It's not right. I've been to POS, they said they don't have cash. I also tried withdrawing from ATM machine. The machine only pays 1,000 ERA for other bags that is not their ATM machine. They said they don't have any cash to pay. They need to look at it and rectify the old issue because it's really really hard on everybody. I went to the bank before it was a war. It was another war there because many people will not let you. Somebody will say that he's been here before you. Before you get to the place, everybody will be crowded in the bank. You will not know who faced you and who did not face you again. So before you know it will lead to another problem. So what I'm soliciting is the government to look into this issue because I know it was a new Nara policy that triggered all these things that is happening. This lady operates the point of sales business. She laments the unavailability of cash. She says it's difficult to get money from the counter. It's very affecting my business because I have only one daughter. I cannot even feed my daughter. Since morning now, I was killed in the ATM. Since morning, without with skill, I am not able to withdraw any money since morning. This thing is affecting us. Let our government find solution for it. We have our own money. We can't even use it. That thing is not making sense anymore. Go many times. I can't see even counting. I go more than five times today. They say we can withdraw on counter. We should go and kill in the ATM and there is no money in the machine. Well, banks are not dispensed in any way. It's obvious. And using POS, the charges are like killing. I think yesterday I made withdrawal of 9,000. The charge is 2,000 Nara. So I actually got some 5th stage from 9, 5 years. So the charge is ridiculous and it's too much. Today, no difference. So I don't know. It's just getting really terrible worse. Hopefully, I am hoping that things actually get better on time because this is really stressful. The cries of no cash fills the air across the country as the CBN tries to drive its cashless policy to an acceptable point. But the more it does, the harder it becomes for people, especially petty traders and commercial boss drivers who have been used to translating with physical cash. Paul, George, plus TV News. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.