Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State said his counterpart in a state got N500 million worth of new naira notes from a bank.
el-Rufai laid this illegal transaction open in an interview he granted BBC Hausa Service when justifying his claim that the ordinary Nigerians are the ones at the receiving end of the approaching deadline of the discontinuation of the old naira notes, one of the measures of the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN that has led to cash scarcity, making commerce bordering on groceries, commuting and many others in the informal sector difficult to transact.
Speaking in Hausa, the Kaduna governor offered a way of out of the cash crunch, he was however coy about the identity of his counterpart.
His word, “Politicians and big businessmen who are targeted by the policy have their ways of accessing the new notes, some of them own the banks, but what of poor, petty traders?
“All APC governors met on the issue, we saw how people suffer, we support the change of currency but time should be extended to months.
“We said let CBN, banks managers and we governors sat and discussed the issue, let’s work together and have a proper plan on how to go about it, we should have plans to follow people to their homes, villages and change the notes for them but not forcing them to go to banks which take some of them a hundreds kilometers.
“tell you this change does not affect politicians, they have their money and they are prepared, they know how to access the new notes, it is poor don’t have ways, even yesterday we were told one of the governors was given 500 millions of the new notes.”
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