Customers of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Kumasi branch, Abuja, panicked on Thursday following a fire drill by the bank.
The drill was an annual exercise carried out by the bank to ensure the safety of life and property.
The exercise involved emergency evacuation of staff and customers to ensure that the safety measures put in place by the banks were functioning properly.
A senior officer of the bank, who preferred anonymity told NAN that “it is an internal affair; it is a fire drill that we usually have all the time.
“It is carried out by the bank to ensure all the safety measures we have put in place are working so that no life or property will be lost in case of any fire incident.
“We also try to ensure that people respond to the alarm by evacuating the premises immediately so that if there is any problem, nobody will be a casualty”.
The officer said the bank had…
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