Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja trooped out in large numbers following the gradual ease of the coronavirus lockdown on Monday.
Most of the residents, who were apparently angry and frustrated after over four weeks of lockdown at home, went about their normal daily activities as early as possible.
Most of the major expressways in Abuja experienced heavy vehicular traffic with presence of security operatives.
The checkpoints manned by security agencies along the major roads within and outside the city centre have not also been dismantled.
Findings by our correspondent revealed that most of the vehicles were not supposed to be on the road.
But most residents complied with the wearing of masks in the public as part of measures to curtail the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Though many residents were seen wearing different colours of face mask, social distancing remained a major problem as many people are not observing it.
A civil servant, Mr Segun Babalola, who spoke to The Nation, said that mask usage was for betterment of everybody.
Many of both commercial and private vehicles conveying passengers, defied government’s directives on the number of passengers to pick.
The Nation also went round some banks in the city centre and some of the satellite towns.where it observed many residents insisted they must have access to their accounts after staying at home for weeks.
At some of the bank branches in Garki Areas 3 and 10, customers were not comfortable with the health and safety protocols introduced by the banks.
At one of the banks located in the highbrow Garki Area 10, some of the customers complained the crowd control measures adopted by the bank was too stringent.
An angry young man in his early 30s said he lives in Kuje Area Council but had to come to Garki where he believed there will be a better network and services to do his transactions.
According to him, he had spent close to 8 hours and could not carry out his transactions.
Also, a resident and customer to another bank located at Area 3, Mrs. Juliet Ibrahim, complained that her aim of living home early enough to the bank was defeated as she could not have access to the banking hall after about 5 hours.