By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere yesterday, rejected the seven days request made by President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve the problems associated with Naira swapping in the country.
Afenifere in a statement made available to journalists, declared that the seven days request, “is too long,” as the situation on ground presently “calls for urgent, well-thought-out and pro-people steps to quickly put an end to the avoidable sufferings of the people”.
The Pan Yoruba socio political organization charged President Buhari to ” come out boldly to instruct CBN to flood the banks with new notes and allow both the old and the new ones to continue to circulate for at least the next three months”.
In the statement in Ibadan by the Afenifere National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, the Pan Yoruba socio political organization maintained that the seven days’ request tends to suggest that President Buhari “does not appreciate the enormity and the intensity of the pains Nigerians are going through all in attempts to obtain cash from their accounts in banks across the country”.
“Several lives have been lost already just as social and economic activities have been seriously paralyzed. For the nation to have to wait for another seven days is to say that the people can continue to go on suffering. That lives can continue to be lost and that businesses can continue to be crippled”, it said.
Afenifere added, ” President Buhari should act fast because lives and economies of Nigerians are seriously in danger as a result of the difficulties in getting cash and fuel.
” The situation on ground presently calls for urgent, well-thought-out and pro-people steps so as to quickly put an end to the avoidable sufferings of the people”.
Afenifere emphasized ” if the exercise had achieved 75 per cent success rate as at the end of January, why would the problem be so dire that people would be losing their lives a week after.
Kicking against the claim by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor that “Nigerians in the rural areas, villages, the aged and vulnerable have had the opportunity to swap their old notes”, Afenifere said, “why would there be so much anguish in the land?”
It also tasked bank officials and others who are sabotaging the system to desist “because what goes around comes around”.
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