CBN New Naira Policy Causing Inconvenience – Fashola
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, has said the new naira policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria is causing inconvenience to Nigerians.
The policy, which requires Nigerians to swap old naira on the denomination of N100, M200, N500 and N1,000 for the newly redesigned ones, has a deadline of February 10 for the exercise to wrap up.
However, many Nigerians have cried out that it is causing pains due to the short deadline and also the unavailability of the new notes.
Speaking on Channels Television’s The Verdict 2023 programme on Monday, Fashola urged the CBN to review the policy.
He said, “I empathise with those challenges but some of them are the result of policy and it is the responsibility of public servants, especially those responsible for those policies to look back and say, ‘Did we intend to cause this pain?’
“And if the policy is not working, perhaps you have to readjust and to also ask yourself whether you thought this through. As a public officer, before and now, I have had cause to reverse myself, when I saw that my policies were causing unintended results.
“So, I have no responsibility on those two areas and therefore I cannot speak to the details of the facts that are available to the policymakers but the important thing is that those policies are not yet delivering the results and are delivering a lot of inconvenience for [people],” he said.
