{"id":102871,"date":"2023-01-31T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102871"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:05:38","slug":"iswap-terrorists-distribute-old-naira-notes-to-passengers-on-borno-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/iswap-terrorists-distribute-old-naira-notes-to-passengers-on-borno-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"ISWAP Terrorists distribute old Naira notes to passengers on Borno highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Ahead of the fresh deadline announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have distributed huge amounts of old notes to scores of commuters in the Lake Chad Basin.<\/p>\n<p>A Pointblanknews.com source said the incident occurred after Mairari village, on the Maiduguri\/Monguno highway on Saturday in Guzamala LGA of Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, the ISWAP members were dressed in military camouflage and drove two gun trucks.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, Bakura Ibrahim, said the insurgents positioned themselves under a tree and stood by the roadside with bags of old naira notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe left Monguno about 12 noon. As we approached Mairari, there were no existing checkpoints in the area; we were apprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey stopped us and asked if we were going to Maiduguri, then they started giving each person 100,000 old naira notes, but we could not believe it. They gave each occupant of the Golf Volkswagen,\u201d Bakura said.<\/p>\n<p>Another source added, \u201cThe group simply told us, \u2018If you think you can go to their banks and change it to new naira, go and do so; may Allah make it beneficial to you\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/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>Ahead of the fresh deadline announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have distributed huge amounts of old&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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