Most filling stations within
Abuja environs have suspended the use of Point of Sales, POS, terminals in
their dealings with customers.
Their reasons are not unconnected
to the new bank policy where they have to charge customers paying for their
products using POS.
Following CBN’s recent directive
to charge applicable taxes and duties on individual electronic transactions,
filling stations now charge customers N50n per transaction as being charged by
the bank.
Prior to this directive, the fee
paid by merchants on the aggregate PoS transactions carried out on a particular
period was never passed to customers, but with the new policy, customers would
have to pay more.
However, during a trip to some of
the filling stations around Abuja environs, our correspondent observed that the use of
PoS terminal has been suspended by most of the fuel stations.
Some of the filling station
managers explained that the use of PoS terminal was
suspended due to the charges which customers were not happy paying.
They explained that customers
were complaining and angry about the new development, hence the need to stop
the use of PoS terminal.
A management staff at AYM Shafa,
Bwari Area Council of Abuja who wished not to be named said: “We had to stop
the use of POS because we now charge customers directly for each transaction
which was not the case before. If you notice, customers formerly don’t pay any
extra charge for POS usage but now we do and they are angry and unwilling,
hence the need to stop. The problem is not from us but the policymakers.”
At Eternal filling station in
Jabi area of Abuja, one of the pump attendants, who wished to be anonymous also
linked the suspension of PoS to CBN’s new directive.
“We have stopped it because
customers are not willing to pay the extra charge for using PoS,” the attendant
who was unwilling to comment further on the matter had said
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