The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has appealed to Nigerians to show understanding adding that the redesigned notes will circulate and be accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emefiele made the appeal at a special media briefing on the new naira notes, on Friday, in Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He noted he was seeing the protests and arguments surrounding the difficulty citizens were facing in accessing the new notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI understand the agitation and I\u2019m begging in God\u2019s name, we on our knees begging people to please show understanding. They should be calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dIn our meetings with the banks, we have told them to set up tents and chairs, give people numbers, which I\u2019m sure some people will say it is old fashioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dBut at this time that we\u2019re trying to get the currency in circulation amongst everybody, people have to have numbers and they come in under a queueing arrangements that when you come in you get served, if it finishes, just be patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dBy tomorrow, when you come back, they will start from where they stopped, you will not be cheated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dLet\u2019s just be calm and adopt a good queuing system, the assurance we give is that it will eventually go round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dEventually the limits will be raised and eventually the limits will be removed and people will be able to conduct their business transactions in a way that it has always been in the past,\u201d Emefiele said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On high charges by the Point of Sale (PoS) agents on every transaction made by their customers, the apex bank governor urged banks to stop the charges on PoS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI am going to be calling a meeting with the banks this evening or by tomorrow, if those charges go to or those charges have been charged through the bank, we are going to have an arrangement with even telcos to see how those charges can actually at this time be stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dThose charges at this time should be stopped. So, if we know whatever you are making that you\u2019re not making because we stopped it, we can collect it somewhere and look for a way to pay you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dBut we don\u2019t want you to continue to create pain on those who want to use alternative channels when they cannot have cash in their pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dWe will go into this later this night or even tomorrow, we\u2019re going to call a meeting of both the banks and the mobile networks; at this time nobody should be charged, if you are charged, we will need to know about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dBut we would want this service to continue to be offered. Whatever it is in terms of volume and number that you have carried out. We will look for away to pay you your money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NAN reports that the redesigned naira notes comprising N200, N500 and N1,000, came into use on Dec. 15, 2022, after they were unveiled by President Muhammadu Buhari on Nov. 23, 2022 in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CBN had earlier fixed Jan. 31 as deadline for the collection of old naira notes, but later extended the time limit to Feb. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The CBN governor had said the extension was to allow Nigerians that had naira legitimately earned and trapped, the opportunity to deposit their money for exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The governor had ordered banks to load their Automated Teller Machines with the new naira notes to ensure Nigerians had access to them.<\/p>\n\n\n
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has appealed to Nigerians to show understanding adding that the redesigned notes will circulate and be accessible. Emefiele made the appeal at a special media briefing on the new naira notes, on Friday, in Lagos. He noted he was seeing the protests and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[949],"tags":[1327],"class_list":["post-48310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-banknotes","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"\n