TITLE: The Guardians EPISODE: 2 The fact that there is always a large population of customers withdrawing money makes sure that there is always a high amount of cash exchanged by the bank. Most times, the bank, gives out more than it takes in and such money is brought in by heavily guarded armored vehicles from the central bank branch. The bank made money and business is always good and this Thursday is not any different. There is an entrance for customers and a “back door” for taking in and bringing out money. The entrance to this back door is always locked and armed police men could usually be seen at the entrance as they always stop non staff of the bank from venturing near that entrance. When the vans bringing in money are about to enter or depart, the whole place would be shut down and nobody would go in or out until the money has made its designated route. That is the standard procedure taken by the bank in a bid to avoid mistakes and prevent a Vehicular . Inside the banking hall was spacious. The counter had cubicles for more than 12 cashiers but they are not always filled with them. On the right, were the offices of the head of banking operations and some other offices for some of the staff. On the left was the customer care department where more than 5 staff attended to the various issues and complaints of the customers. It is supposed to work more like an avenue for customers to ask questions about the services the bank provided that they did not understand but they dealt more with complains of customer who had issues with their ATM cards. In front of the counter is a huge space where the customers queue up mostly as they wait their turn. There are three long chairs that can naturally contain 3 people comfortable at a corner opposite a section of the corner for customers who would rather sit while waiting their turn to be served. In front of the customer care section, there is a walkway that leads to the bulk room which is used to handle large sums of money. At the opposite side of the busy expressway, the bank acquired a plot of land just for its customers to park their cars as it was becoming difficult to drive to the next point and turn just because they want to do some transaction so they would easily park there, make use of the pedestrian bridge to cross the road and carry out what ever transaction they want to carry out and this morning, a silver colored Toyota Hiace pulled up into the parking space and three men got out of it while the driver remained in the car. Security at the space barely took notice of the bus and its passenger because they assumed that the driver was a designated one bringing in his bosses to the bank. Almost immediately, a Nissan Serena pulled up into the front of the bank and blocked the entrance to the car park of the bank itself. A traffic official walked up to the car to see why the bus was parking there and to suggest other spaces to park when two men(one sitting beside the driver on front and another beside the door) got out of the minivan clutching automatic rifles and started firing into the air indiscriminatel y. The door on the other side opened and the remaining 5 passengers got down leaving only the driver in the car all of them holding the same match grade rifle as the men who alighted previously. While the two men were shooting, everyone around scampered for safety and that included both customers and sellers at the market close by. One of the men who got out earlier walked towards the road and stood there with the gun pointing parallel to his feet now and shouted; “Everybody get down or you will get killed” and he opened fire. Some people who were peeping and trying to see what was happening got hot pieces of lead shot into them as suddenly, the ever busy Ikorodu road became empty. Cars had turned around with accuracy that could only be imagined as they all scampered to safety. The traffic officials controlling traffic at the bus stop also lay down with their faces in the muddy water while some who were fast ran into the market complex. The market at this time was now a ghost of itself. There was screams from people who have been struck by stray bullets and those who were not hit had found somewhere to hide. Even the disabled beggars who sat at the entrance of the market were nowhere to be found. The remaining 5 men who had got out of the car later ran into the bank’s compound and within seconds, everyone making a transaction at the ATM machines were on the ground one of them said calmly; “We don’t want to hear your phones ring and we don’t want you looking up. All you should do is lay down as you are and stay down or else, you will be killed right there.” Watchout for episode 3 after 30 likes
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:57:32 +0000
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