Naira Scarcity: Influential Governor Takes to Street, Mobilizes POS Operators to Dispense Carh
- Governor Godwin Obaseki has mobilised some POS operators in the state to dispense some cash to the people of the state following protest against naira scarcity caused by FG naira redesign policy
- Some of the beneficiaries of the programme in the video shared by the governor on his Twitter page said they are collecting 5,000 without charges
- President Muhammadu Buhari overruled the supreme court ruling on the policy, and the governor has joined the suit to defend the federal government's policy
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Benin, Edo - Godwin Obaseki, the governor of Edo state, has mobilised POS operators to dispense N1000 new notes of the state's people.
In a video shared by the governor on his Twitter page, the people were seen on queue before each POS operators to dispense cash to the people.
Source: UGC
Obaseki mobilised POS operators to dispense maximum of N5000 to people
According to the Tweet, Obaseki posited that the measure has ended the violence and protest over the naira redesign policy of the President Muhammadu Buhari.
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The governor captioned the video as:
"Naira redesign: Obaseki, CBN, PoS operators meet, strategize on cash disbursement across Edo
"says protest, violence in Benin over CBN cashless policy politically-motivated"
See the Tweet here:
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Though the governor is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he and his counterpart in Bayelsa has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government in defending the naira redesign policy at the supreme court.
The government policy has left many Nigerians stranded as many could not access their money as the government is trying to force the country into cashless policy.
According to M.I Mustapha, counsel to Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara, when the 3 states approached the supreme court to restrained the federal government from further implementation of the policy, policy, based on CBN statistics, 60% of Nigerians are currently unbanked.
Tension looms as powerful PDP chieftain, 3 others are killed
Legit.ng earlier reported that unknown gunmen have been reported to have killed 4 people, including a PDP chieftain, in Awka, Anambra state capital.
The incident reportedly happened at a compound in the Nodu town square in Nodu Okpuno area of the state.
However, the police in the state said they are yet to get details of the incident, adding that the witnesses or relatives of the victims should come forward.
Source: Legit.ng
