The New CBN Policy, The Talibanisation Of The Polical Economy – By Adewale Adeoye

The CBN says you can’t take more than 20k out of your own money in one day. Corporate groups that want to buy a fridge urgently wont be able to do so if they would need up to 500k cash to do so and it there are Internet hitches. They need to wait for days.

I’m for a cashless society, but the right conditions must be put in place first. In Nigeria we seem not to conduct effective survey before coming up with policies that have good motives but poor implementation processes. The new CBN rule is one of such good policies but put in place without clearing the landmines and may end up being counter productive. How much cash can you withdraw in the US for instance? You can withdraw up to 300 to 1000 dollars depending on your bank and your personal data. In UK, you can withdraw between 300 to 1000 pounds. So in reality, no society is 100 percent cashless. But in Nigeria, there is Arogance of Ignorance by our leaders, sorry to use that word.We want to copy things from abroad but each time we distort the photocopy and soil with our oily hands.

CBN is giving us less than 3 months for something we are less prepared for. They claim they want every Nigerian to be Internet complaint when more than half of Nigerians have no access to Internet and less than 30 percent of Nigerians have bank accounts in the first place. The CBN wants a child of three weeks to start running on his feet. They want to kill the child.

The banks are keeping our money, trading with our money, making profit but are telling us there is a limit to which we can use the money we have laboured for. They are imposing taxes indirectly. When you deposit beyond a limit, they charge you, when you withdraw, they charge you. At the end of the year, the banks announce huge after tax profit. They don’t invest in agriculture, housing, public health, if they do its so tiny.Its all about savage accumulation of public wealth. They say is will stop kidnapping. This cannot be true. Tackling security has to do with effective and efficient policing and an economy that offers hope, one that stops stealing of public funds. Most fraud even by politicians are committed on line,so this policy won’t stop fraudsters.

They are telling us you can’t spent more than 20k but the banks can receive billions of naira in one day only that they will take charges.

The Banks are an extension of the ruling class. When the political class is sick, the banking sector will also be ill. The CBN does not want to sanitise the banking industry but interested in ensuring they get more public funds in their kitty.

How will Mama put endure her trade with maximum of N20k withdrawal in one day. CBN is saying Children of a mother cannot feed on their mother’s breast more than once in a week, yet CBN has made provision for neither Akamu nor cow milk. They don’t care if the children cry until death comes.

They will suffocate the children, Nigerians, to death. Imagine, You are asked to make deposit of 50k for emergency operation in an Hospital, while on the sick bed, you need to give 20k to someone to buy you medicine from the PHARMACY and the person needs to transport himself in a taxi driven by someone without POS.

Even if you take your own car and you want to buy fuel on the way to safe someone’s life, the petrol attendant says the network is bad, you get to the Chemist, the network is bad and you can’t transfer money or you transfer the money but the Phamacist
did not receive the alert. He then tells you you can’t take the medicine.

This is not to talk of travelling in a long distance and on the highway, your fuel got exhausted.

The next petrol station has a faulty POS in a highway infested with kidnappers.

Now, how do we buy cow of 150k from a Fulani man in the Bush that has nothing to do with POS?

There Is A Spiritual Dimension

How do you pay your tithe in your church and you wish to pay 50k on a Sunday?

How do you give funds to poor people in your Mosques or Churches who have come to you for urgent help? These poor folks need about 10k but they have no bank accounts.

Sometimes you even want to pay money in your Church or Mosque without showing your name, a privacy that is legitimate?

For traditional religion followers, how do you pay your Babalawo in the remotest villages who need 20k from you to make sacrifices?

How do you pay farmers in the villages and down the valleys who live on farms and have no need for banks?

CBN is forcing Nigerians to use banks but most Nigerians detest the banks who offer no benefit to them. They keep your money only to take COT.

No matter what the CBN does, people won’t keep money in banks for many reasons: The banks are infested with crooks; online rogues have partners in the banks.

Through online transanctions, Many Nigerians have lost funds to criminals working in banks and they never get their funds back.

Most Nigerians see the banks as high risk vendors. They see the banks as collaborators in crime. Many Nigerians hate their banks.

Yet, interests on savings is about 1.5 percent. It means it does not make any sense to save money in Nigerian banks.

Dividends on Treasury bills have collapsed from 20% 10 years ago to less than 2 percent. It means in one year, you can only make 2 percent on investment but the COT deducted from your banks will almost eliminate the 2 percent gain.

Nigeria is like a car which engine has been destroyed by reckless drunk drivers.

The irresponsible drivers are now looking for excuses. They are now asking passengers to sell pints of their blood to fix the car engine yet the mechanic expected to fix the engine is in a state of drunken stupor.

Corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigeria. The country is empty. Operators of the system are confused. They don’t know what to do. They are employing voodoo options.

When you catch a thief in the market with stolen goods, it’s not unusual for the thief to resort to attacking everyone on sight. This policy of the CBN does not make sense.

The CBN is chasing shadows, leaving the substance.

SMSE will suffer with this policy. More people will use the banks but the banks and their Internet fraudster will have a free reign robbing and killing many Nigerians

I hope what is happening in Lebanon won’t happen in Nigeria. The people in Beirut can’t receive their own money kept in banks. If they ask for 50k, the banks will give them 5k.

They have resorted to physically robbing the banks or at gun point to retrieve their own money lodge in those banks which they refuse to give to them.

That the policy will check armed robbers is not true. CBN should face its work work leave security to DSS and others. The real robbers are those in those banks, in those political camps, stealing public funds in billions of naira. That it will stop kidnapping is also false. It only means victims of kidnapping must be prepared for more account owners to collect 20k in large numbers to be given to the kidnappers.

It’s unfortunate the CBN is not talking of idle funds in billions kept in those banks by crooks. The CBN is not talking of bank workers that collude with politicians to steal public funds.

The heart of the elite has no place for the masses. They design policies without thinking of the most poor

There is a way out: Comrade Femi Falana, the iconic hero that has helped millions of poor people out of distress, should come to our aid. He should sue the banks and reverse this ugly, savage and tyrannical policy.