Ex-CBN director urges Emefiele to enforce provision of mint for bank customers

A former Assistant director at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Solomon Omoyeni, has stated that physical cash handling of dirty notes increases vulnerability of people contracting and transmitting Coronavirus.
In an open letter to Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele, he urged the apex bank to prevail on commercial banks to issue new notes to their customers.
He said Nigerians were worried seeing dirty notes being issued to customers across the country, adding, “The world over is passing through a period of an infectious strange disease called Coronavirus. I appreciate the control measures taken by governments, especially the Lagos State Government to curtail spread of the virus.
“It should be stressed that physical cash handling of dirty notes put bacteria on customers and could be transmitted to other people.
“As every stakeholder is enjoyed to take precautionary measures to combat the spread of the virus, as a concerned senior citizen, I appeal to the Governor of the CBN to always issue new notes and enforce its issuance in banks during this trying period.”