Several bank customers in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital are still struggling to get new naira notes from the Automated Teller Machines of most branches of the commercial banks, even after day-two of the extended dateline for the exchange of old notes for the new ones as announced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Sunday
Edu-biznews observed long queue of customers up till late hours of Tuesday at most of the ATM points of branches of commercial banks, particularly in central business district of Oke-Ilewo, Omida and Panseke areas where they are large centration of banks
Only few of the ATM were dispensing cash to customers, as most of them were not loaded with the newly redesigned notes of N200, N500 and N1,000, leaving most people disappointed after waiting on long queue with no cash to take them
It was a tough moment for most customers who had earlier rushed to the banks over the weekend to deposit their old naira notes to beat the initial January 31, 2023 deadline fixed for the exchange of old notes for the new ones
Meanwhile Govermor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele has continued to assured Nigerians of making the new notes available, accusing the commercial banks of conniving with few people to creat scarcity of the new notes
Emefiele eventually appeared before the Ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives looking into the cashless policy of the apex bank and its implementation of the cash Swap policy which had brought untold hardship on most Nigerians
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