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Amidst the increased scarcity of Naira notes, a bank reportedly hands out coins to customers as an alternative means for redesigned notes.

Customers lament as bank hands out coins amidst Naira notes scarcity (Video)

This comes amidst allegations that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has a shortage of resources to print more Naira notes. This triggered an open letter from APC presidential candidate, Tinubu to CBN’s governor, Emefiele. A video making the rounds on social media captured the moment a bank handed out coins to customers. A bag of labelled 1000 pieces of N2 coins is seen in the video as the customer lamented.

Customers lament as bank hands out coins amidst Naira notes scarcity (Video)

“What is this?” a customer lamented in Yoruba while being told a bag of coins contained an equivalence of N2K. The development triggered reactions from Nigerians who find it ridiculous while others made fun of the weight, and others. @fortunista_by_ivy wrote, “Next thing people will start betraying people for a bag of 2 naira coins 😂😂! One step forward 2023 years back.” Another user @hon_francis01 who had a contrary opinion wrote, “This will really improve Nigerian economy because like most of the things that is supposed to be sold out for like #7 but due to they didn’t longer use #1,#2 they will just move it to #10 so that’s why things are really expensive, with the help of this things will be getting better little by little.” Watch the video below …

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