Report: AAX Users Storm Crypto Exchange’s Nigerian Offices, Attack Employees

Nigeria customers of the crypto change AAX, which suspended withdrawals on Nov. 12, reportedly stormed its places of work in Lagos and started assaulting workers. Reports that disgruntled AAX customers have harassed the crypto change’s staff got here simply days after the Nigerian crypto and blockchain advocacy group requested to chorus from doing so. Meanwhile, the previous vice chairman of AAX claimed in a tweet that the “brand is no more and trust is broken.”

Disgruntled Nigerian AAX Users Told to Spare Local Employees

According to a neighborhood report, a bunch of disgruntled Nigerian customers of Atom Asset Exchange (AAX) just lately stormed the crypto change’s places of work in Lagos and assaulted workers. The indignant mob reportedly demanded the lifting of a freeze on withdrawals, which got here into impact on Nov. 12.

While the Dec. 2 report by Legit doesn’t state when the incident occurred, it nonetheless corroborates an earlier plea made by the advocacy group the Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SIBAN).In its Nov. 28 public discover, SIBAN urged AAX customers to cease victimizing the beleaguered crypto change’s staff.

We enchantment to and discourage any dissatisfied or indignant consumer or investor from harassing or victimizing the AAX Country Manager (Nigeria), different native employees members, and AAX ambassadors nationwide. These individuals are additionally going through the identical state of affairs as disgruntled customers and traders are.

The advocacy group additionally revealed that the Hong-Kong headquartered crypto change’s senior executives had stopped speaking with their Nigeria-based staff.

AAX Users Have Not Been Updated

Meanwhile, in a message aimed toward AAX and its founders, the advocacy group reminded the crypto change of its obligations in direction of customers. In addition, the discover instructed some steps that AAX and Nigerian staff should take to revive the general public’s belief.

“If protecting users is AAX’s highest priority as it boasts in its public announcement, AAX should immediately take steps to close the gaps by bridging communication between itself and its local staff in Nigeria on the one hand, and between AAX and its Nigerian users on the other hand,” SIBAN’s public discover stated.

In its final update (Nov. 18), AAX advised customers that there had been “many new developments” which meant it required “more time to respond to the overwhelming amount of questions in the community.” At the time, AAX stated it might situation extra updates by way of the official channel for public bulletins and updates. However, the crypto change had not issued contemporary updates on the time of writing (Dec. 3, 11:00 am EST).

Dear all, it’s true I’ve resigned from AAX. I did battle for the neighborhood however not one of the initiatives we got here up with have been accepted. Any position I had left for communication grew to become hole.

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— ₿en Caselin HODL (@BenCaselin) November 28, 2022

The sudden resignation of the crypto platform’s vice chairman Ben Caselin and his claims that the “brand is no more and trust is broken” have fueled hypothesis that the crypto change won’t resume operations any time quickly.

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