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I'm Not Happy, Nigerians Need Cash Now – Osinbajo

I'm Not Happy, Nigerians Need Cash Now – Osinbajo


Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has expressed his concern over difficulty experienced by Nigerians in getting the new naira notes.

The Vice President, on Friday, in Abuja met with some players in the FinTech space to explore possible ways of mitigating the hardship.

VP Osinbajo urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and banks to deploy more FinTechs and money agents to the hinterlands to address the worrying situation. The Vice President stated that Nigerians need cash to pay for transport, food, and other needs.

“In Abuja how do you take ‘drop or along’ or use a Keke NAPEP without cash, or buy foodstuff on the road or in canteens, or even buy recharge cards?

“Parents with kids in public schools give money daily to their children for lunch, most commerce is informal, so you need cash for most things”, he said.

Osinbajo said it was disturbing that after depositing old notes, there are no new notes: “People everywhere in the urban areas and rural areas simply have no money.”

The nation’s second-in-command observed some FinTechs have mobile money licenses and should be engaged immediately.

He said many of them have micro-finance bank licenses and already have a network of mobile money agents or human banks or human ATMs, as they are sometimes.

“They can supervise by themselves. They can do currency swaps and open bank accounts.”

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