Similarly, The National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, has said that the negative outcome of implementing the naira redesign policy was having an adverse effect on Nigerians, noting that lives were still being lost, just as businesses were collapsing.
Ajayi also cited the instance of a broadcaster with Fresh FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, who slumped and died last Saturday while trekking because he could not access the needed cash.
He, however, urged the President Muhammadu Buhari and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor to, as a matter of urgency, proclaim that all the currency notes, both old and new, should continue to be used by the public.
He said: “Just as the annulment came to become the yardstick to assess that regime, so will the inhuman, inconsiderate and illegal ways of implementing the Naira redesigning eventually become the prism through which President Muhammadu Buhari administration will be judged.
”Unfortunately, the verdict is not going to be favourable to the administration in view of the number of lives that have been lost and the number of businesses that have been ruined due to lack of access to legitimately earned cash by citizens and business owners. As we speak now, lives are still being lost just as businesses are still collapsing needlessly.
“What makes the whole thing to be more worrisome is the refusal of President Buhari and Mr Godwin Emefiele of the CBN to comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court.
”It is mind-boggling in view of their vow to act in accordance with the law. And the expectation that the welfare of the people is what these public officers would work for all the time.”