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Scarcity of new naira notes is a threat to national security, says HURIWA

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA), on Monday, said that the existing severe scarcity of newly introduced Naira notes in most banks across Nigeria is a huge threat to national security.

The right group said the manifest inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is a pointer to why Nigeria needs an independent Governor of the Central Bank and not the politically tainted and compromised head that we have now.

HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, in a statement, observed the organised chaos and rancorous situation of lack of new Naira notes and the attendant hardships experienced by millions of commoners in Aba, Abia State, Onitsha Anambra State, Lagos, Kano and Kafanchan in Kaduna State,

He said: “HURIWA is of the opinion that the haste with which the redesigning project of the national currency was handled by the Governor of CBN and President…
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