Report has emerged that suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) distributed huge amounts of old notes to several commuters in the Lake Chad Basin ahead of the deadline of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) cashless policy.
According to Daily Trust, citing sources, the incident occured on Saturday at Mairari village, along the Maiduguri/Monguno highway in Guzamala LGA of Borno State.
It said, some members of the Islamic terrorist group in military camouflage stationed themselves under trees, and by the roadside, with two gun trucks parked, and bags loaded with old naira note.
In philanthropy mode, they reportedly gifted every commuter N100, 000(One hundred thousand naira) each.
“We left Monguno at about 12 noon. As we approached Mairari, there were no existing checkpoints in the area; we were apprehensive.
“They stopped us and asked if we were going to Maiduguri, then they started giving each person 100,000 old naira notes, but we could not believe it. They gave each occupant of the Golf Volkswagen,” one Ibrahim Bakura, a resident of the area, and one of the beneficiaries of the extraordinary kindness from unlikely sources, told the paper.
Quoting another source, it wrote: “The group simply told us, “If you think you can go to their banks and change it to new naira, go and do so; may Allah make it beneficial to you.”
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