Curled from The Nation newspaper reports
CBN's Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Ugochukwu Okoroafor, spoke with reporters yesterday in Abuja. He said: “We are about to carry out sensitisation campaign on the introduction of N5000 note and the restructuring of the nation’s other currencies. Everything will not take off at the first quarter of next year. We are starting with a particular currency in the first quarter of next year, there will still be currency and coins for the denominations that will be coined like N5, N10 and N20 so that both will be operational side by side.”
Okoroafor said it would be cheaper to print and issue N5000 note. Traders, who move money around, he said, would appreciate the need for the issuance of N5000 note while those at the low end of the transaction chain would also benefit from the new currency restructuring initiative.
He said the apex bank has started talking to relevant authorities, including members of the National Assembly on the currency restructuring initiative. The restructuring exercise, he said, is within the mandate of the CBN. Okoroafor said the president has given approval for the campaign to begin. He said: “We want to be among the top 20 largest economy in 2020; we believe in it. What we should do is pray for Nigeria to have a financial system that can support one of the world’s largest economies. We cannot do it, if we don’t have the right framework.
“We want to ensure that life is made a lot easier for Nigerians and will continue to improve the system.”
Okoroafor said the report that N40 billion would be spent to print the N5000 note is false, saying the cost is in the CBN annual report.
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