Dramatic As Beggars In Kaduna Reject Helpers’ Old Naira Notes

Dramatic As Beggars In Kaduna Reject Helpers’ Old Naira Notes

Dramatic As Beggars In Kaduna Reject Helpers’ Old Naira Notes

According to reports, several beggars in Kaduna State have joined the protest against individuals who volunteered to aid them by accepting the old N1,000, N500, and N200 Naira notes.

According to Jevibe News, It should be recalled that Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), had announced weeks earlier that the three different denominations of the previous Naira notes will cease to be accepted for use in any kind of financial transaction beginning on January 31, 2023.

Recently, the apex bank maintained that the deadline fixed for all citizens to return the old N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes would not be extended.

Dramatic As Beggars In Kaduna Reject Helpers’ Old Naira Notes

A journalist who witnessed the event in Kaduna said that there was a mild drama at the popular Kano-road, Kaduna, on Wednesday morning when some group of beggars rejected the old naira notes gifted to them by a good Samaritan.

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According to him, a young man was accosted by three beggars on wheelchairs and as he alighted from a bus, realizing they were asking for handouts, the man took an N1000 note from his wallet and stretched it towards the most senior beggar among the three.

To his amusement, the beggars looked at themselves, swiveled their wheelchairs around, and moved away from the young man, rejecting his offer.

Speaking to onlookers, the young man who identified himself as Caleb reportedly said, “They (beggars), came to me, asking for alms. I gave them what I had on me, but they rejected it.”

Daily Post quoted the young man as saying that he only had the old currency notes and had not been able to get the new ones despite his efforts.