White Supremacy At A GTBank In Lagos, Nigerian Man Gives Account Of How He Confronted It

Femi Owolabi

This morning, as I landed in Lagos, I made to the nearest GTB to transact. The queue from inside the banking hall to the bank entrance was crazy. They are customers who wanna register for their BVN, I was told. Today is the last day for registration, they said. I wished them well as I aligned with the shorter queue for customers who wanna deposit cash.

Soon, from the BVN queue, a woman began to scream. The only thing I was able to pick from the scream, 'se ori meji loni ni? (does he have two heads?' I stepped out of my queue, to go and gbeborun, to see what or who was tormenting this woman. These GTB staff that are always garbed in white military-like uniform; are they drivers or security men? About three of them had just came in with one whiteman. And they took the whiteman straight to the lady at the BVN desk. And the lady, too, was already attending to the whiteman while the queue watched, and waited, except this woman.