By Abdulwaheed Olayinka Adubi, Kaduna
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sensitised Kaduna traders on the redesigned naira notes, while also encouraging them to change their old notes.
The sensitization exercise which was done at the Abubakar Mahmud Gumi market motor park, was held simultaneously at various locations across the country recently. Speaking to Journalists during the exercise, the Director, Capacity Development Department, CBN, Mohammed Abba urged Nigerians to change their old notes, saying that there is no going back on the January 31 deadline.
According to him, “We are not just starting the sensitisation, we have involved the National Orientation Agency (NOA) and some other media houses since when the CBN governor made the announcement. “We are just trying to consolidate that effort now. The deadline is getting closer and people need to be carried along”.
He also urged traders to visit their banks, deposit the old notes and get the new ones so that at the end of the month, their monies will not become useless, he added. Abba further explained that the CBN is working assiduously to ensure that the banks in Kaduna seize to dispense old Naira notes.
“We are going round the banks to ensure that new notes are available in their Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and if we found any bank that is breaking this rule, we will put sanctions on them. We have enough money in the Central Bank. He assured that Nigerians that all those banks that are dispensing old notes will stop doing that soon.
Abba also said that CBN would reach out to people in rural areas through their traditional rulers so as to sensitize them on new notes and deadline.
