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‘Report Your Bank to Us, If You Don’t Get Forex for Invisible Items Within 24hours’

Nigeria’s commercial banks will not abandon round-tripping in a hurry. Some have seized or diverted part of the over $1.3billion which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been splashing on the banks, in the past five weeks, to take care of their customers’ demand for foreign exchange to meet their needs for PTA, BTA, tuition and medical fees.

On Friday, the CBN issued a statement to show it’s aware of the banks’ game. The apex bank’s acting director, corporate communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor, signed a press statement.

It states that information reaching the Central Bank “reveals that some customers seeking to buy forex for BTA, PTA, medical and school fees are being frustrated by some banks with the false claim that the CBN is not allocating enough forex to them for BTA, PTA, tuition and medical fees”.

The CBN stated emphatically: “This claim is totally untrue. All banks have more than enough stock of forex in their possession for the purpose of meeting genuine customers’ demand for BTA, PTA, tuition and medical fees. Indeed, on a weekly basis, the CBN has been selling at least $80m to banks for onward sale to their customers for these invisible items.

“Members of the public seeking to buy forex for the above-mentioned purposes are, therefore, advised to go to their banks and obtain their forex. Any customer who is not attended to within 24 hours for BTA/PTA or 48 hours for tuition and medical fees should call 07002255226 or send an email to [email protected], with the name and branch of the non-cooperating bank.

“Furthermore, no customer should accept to buy forex from any bank at more than the CURRENTLY prescribed rate of N360/$1.”

 

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