Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana,
has written to the Central Bank of Nigeria demanding details of the amount of
new naira notes distributed to commercial banks across the country.
He also demanded that the CBN should provide the list of
customers who have withdrawn more than the N100,000 maximum sum approved by the
apex bank.
The CBN has maintained that it printed enough new N200, N500
and N1,000 notes to go round, blaming politicians for hoarding the new notes.
However, in a letter from Falana Chambers signed by Femi Adedeji, ESQ, dated February 16, 2023, Falana demanded that the CBN should provide details on how the new notes were disbursed to commercial banks.
The letter partly read, “Our attention has been drawn to
your statement wherein you claimed that some unnamed politicians have mopped up
the new naira notes made available to all commercial banks by the Central Bank
of Nigeria.
“We are compelled to
request you to furnish us with information concerning the amount of the
designed notes of N200, N500 and N1,000 denominations made available to each
commercial bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
“Furthermore, we also request you to furnish us with the
list of customers of the commercial banks who collected more than N100,000
approved by you from the commercial banks.
He further threatened to take a legal action if the CBN
failed to provide the information in seven days.
“As this request is made pursuant to the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2011, you are required to accede to our request
within seven days of the receipt of this letter.
“TAKE NOTICE that if you fail or refuse to furnish us with
the requested information before the deadline of seven days we shall not
hesitate to pray the Federal High Court to compel you to accede to our
request.”
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