There's palpable fear and heightened tension amongst rivers residents over next week’s cbn cut-off date (january 31st) for the antique naira notes following the apparent shortage of the new naira notes.
Visits via the father or mother to maximum of the banks alongside ikwerre road, aba avenue, college of portharcourt and rivers kingdom university in the metropolis capital display that the brand new notes are nevertheless very scarce.
The findings show that the front desk officials had been now not paying the new notes to customers irrespective of how a whole lot the purchaser turned into taking flight.
Whilst the reporter at the side of different clients on the uba in uniport requested the brand new notes from front table officials/cashiers, they had been informed that most effective the atms had been paying the brand new notes, on arrival at the atm, the machines had been not dishing out.
Upon inquiry, the safety men at the premises stated, the earlier loaded cash had completed.
At the uba along ikwere street, customers who queued up for coins withdrawals of recent notes have been sighted helpless as no person attended to them, handiest those who requested for withdrawal of antique notes have been attended to.
In an interview, a front desk officer at the financial institution who does no longer need her call mentioned, said, that there may be a limited deliver of the new notes including that clients can handiest get it thru the atms.
A scholar at rivers state college, miss chika monye stated, after queueing for 2 hours on the atm, she was only capable of get n10,000 of the n1,000 new notes out of the n20,000 she requested for.
A visit to mile one marketplace, mile 3 and some business centres suggests that citizens have commenced rejecting the antique naira notes.
A resident, mr ifeanyi lawrence, described the situation as very unlucky, querying how cbn will give january 31st as the closing date to give up the flow of the vintage notes, yet there has been no deliver of the brand new naira notes.