Breaking: CBN Gov says Feb 10 deadline for circulation of old naira notes sacrosanct

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Photo: CBN Gov Godwin Emefiele

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has said the February 10 deadline of the circulation of old naira notes has not charged.

The CBN Governor disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja while briefing the diplomatic community at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Emefiele’s clarification is coming on the heels of confusion over the supreme court order which extended the deadline to February 15, pending the hearing by the court.

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Nigerians were thrown into confusion as commercial banks refused to take the old notes at their branches on Monday.

He said, “The situation is substantially calming down since the commencement of over-the-counter payments to complement ATM disbursements and the use of super-agents. There is, therefore, no need to consider any shift from the deadline of February 10.

“Some of our leaders are buying the new notes and storing them for whatever purpose and I will not expand further on that.”

Emefiele said the apex bank acknowledges the suffering of Nigerians, noting that effective implementation of the policy could scrap 4% of the inflation numbers.

He further explained that the optimal volume of cash in circulation should be around N700billion.

He said: “Even if we say N1trillion should be in circulation, we cannot refloat N3.7trillion into circulation.”

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