El-Rufai commends Supreme Court ruling on cash swap
Kaduna Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has commended the ruling of the Supreme Court. extending the use of the old naira notes beyond the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) February 10 deadline, describing it as a welcome development.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, El-Rufai thanked “the justices for their decision and appeals to the federal authorities to treat the ruling as an opportunity to relieve human suffering.”
The statement recalled the ‘’governments of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara states were compelled to approach the Supreme Court to mitigate the needless stress imposed on ordinary people and their livelihoods by the ill-timed, incompetent planning and execution of an overnight cashless policy.”
The Governor argued that CBN advanced no emergency justification for what he described as ’’this callous decision to deny people access to their deposited cash.’’
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