Ahead of the January 31 deadline for the discontinuation of the old naira notes, Anambra residents have besieged banks and markets across major cities of the region.
Our correspondent who went round major cities of Onitsha, Obosi, Nnewi and some parts of Awka, on Saturday, observed that the scarcity of the redesigned naira notes forced most traders to lock shops in a bid to avoid collecting the old notes, which were still largely in circulation.
At the commercial banks, Automated Teller Machines were people flooded with people even as most of the machines were still dispensing the old naira notes. PoS operators were also seen giving out the old notes to customers. A resident of Onitsha, Chinwe Odume, expressed worry at the inability of the commercial banks in the area to dispense the new naira notes as directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Two respondents at the Nnewi market, James Uko and Gloria Nwaobu, while complaining about the development, said they had no option than to resort to panic-buying in order to spend the old notes before the Tuesday deadline.
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