The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that if the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) did not extend the deadline for the use of the old currency notes, it would push the rural villagers into more hardship.
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, stated this, while appealing to the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to listen to the voice of reason and extend the deadline and make the new banknotes much available for seamless transaction.
The NLC boss said, “We align ourselves fully with the position of Senate because we go to the rural areas. We have workers in rural areas. We have many of our local governments that don’t have banking facilities and some of those areas are even very hard to reach.“So we call for this policy to be reviewed and to give an extension so that all the old notes can then be mopped up by the bank.
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