{"id":102189,"date":"2022-12-29T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102189"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T18:01:16","slug":"naira-redesign-senate-seeks-deadline-extension-to-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/naira-redesign-senate-seeks-deadline-extension-to-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Naira redesign: Senate seeks deadline extension to June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to urgently extend the withdrawal date of old currency notes from January 31 to June 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate resolution was sequel to a point of order raised by Sen. Mohammed Ndume (APC-Borno) during the plenary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The CBN had on October 26, announced plans to redesign the 200, 500, and 1,000 naira notes.<\/p>\n<p>Raising Orders 41 and 51 of Senate Standing Rule, Ndume said that the call for extension of the date should be considered as a matter of urgent national importance in order to forestall imminent hardship on Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Ndume said, \u201cThis senate notes that many Nigerian banks on Thursday, December 15, opened their vaults to customers and depositors to exchange their old currency for the newly redesigned currency which has a stipulated deadline of January 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome Nigerians are already envisaging long queues in the banking hall across the country as a result of people trying to get access to the new naira note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe old notes are expected to be in circulation along the new ones until January 31 when the old ones are expected to be phased out.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cIt is expected that many Nigerian businesses will start to rig the old notes as soon as banks start paying redesigned notes to customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker also said that access to the new notes would be compounded by recent circular by the CBN which limited the amount of cash withdrawal by corporate entities to withdraw within certain period of time.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, \u201cThe withdrawal of old notes from circulation if not extended beyond 31, many Nigerians will be thrown into hardship and to avoid the repeat of 1984 experience withdrawal of old notes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contributing Senator Adamu Aliero (PDP-Kebbi) said that it was true that in rural areas, people were not even aware that there was going to be currency change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this motion is very apt and timely. If we insist on the date given by CBN, it will cause a lot of hardship for our rural dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajority of our people live in rural areas where there are no banks and PoS. It is appropriate we extend the time as suggested in the motion,\u201dAliero said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to urgently extend the withdrawal date of old currency notes from January 31 to June 30, 2023. 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