Yuletide: CBN campaigns against Naira abuse, hoarding

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief & Favour Isaac

ABUJA — The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has launched a nationwide run against the maltreatment and hoarding of the Naira arsenic the yuletide play approaches.

Speaking astatine the flag-off successful Abuja, the Deputy Governor (Operations), Mr. Bala Bello, represented by the Director of Currency Operations and Branch Management, Dr. Adetona Adedeji, called for attitudinal alteration among Nigerians, stressing that corporate enactment was required to safeguard the nation’s currency.

With the taxable “Naira Our Pride: Handle with Care,” Mr. Bello condemned practices specified arsenic spraying the Naira astatine societal events, folding, tearing, mutilating, oregon penning connected it. He said specified actions not lone diminish the dignity of the nationalist awesome but besides summation the outgo of printing and replacement.

“The Naira is much than a means of payment. It represents our nationalist pride, our sovereignty, and our shared destiny arsenic a people. Careless practices undermine its integrity and weaken assurance successful our nationalist currency,” Bello said.

He emphasized that the run was not solely a CBN inaugural but a telephone to enactment for each stakeholders, including banks, transport unions, traders, marketplace leaders, schools, spiritual organizations, civilian society, and the media. According to him, banks indispensable proceed to amended customers and guarantee acceptable notes are successful circulation, portion markets and transport operators should discourage rejection and maltreatment of Naira notes.

“As the yuletide play approaches, I indispensable besides stress that currency hoarding harms america all. It denies others entree to cash, disrupts circulation, and puts undue strain connected the system. We indispensable promote liable currency use, beforehand alternate outgo platforms, and curb hoarding practices,” helium added.

The CBN’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications, Hajiya Hakama Sidi Ali, said the slope remains committed to ensuring the availability of cleanable notes successful enactment with its Clean Note Policy, arsenic enshrined successful the CBN Act of 2007. She urged Nigerians to respect the Naira, describing it arsenic a “critical awesome of nationalist identity.”

“It is the civic work of each Nigerian to grip the Naira with care. Do not spray, hawk, oregon mutilate it. We indispensable each beryllium ambassadors of cleanable notes,” she said, encouraging citizens to clasp alternate outgo channels arsenic portion of efforts to fortify Nigeria’s outgo strategy and support user rights.

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