Group flays Adeboye On Naira Redesign

<h4>Group flays Adeboye On Naira Redesign<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a group called &OpenCurlyQuote;The Conference of Nigerians for Peace and Good Governance&comma;’ CONPAGG&comma; has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to disregards Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s outcry on the decision to redesign certain categories of Naira&comma; saying it is a legacy decision by the President&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The general overseer of the<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;"> Redeemed Christian Church of God&comma; RCCG&comma;<&sol;a> had faulted the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria &lpar;CBN&rpar; to redesign the country’s currency notes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Adeboye spoke on Friday during RCCG’s November holy ghost service at the church headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The cleric said the policy &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;does not make sense” amid the free fall of the naira against foreign currencies&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Adeboye said the decision-makers initiated the policy without considering the current value of the naira and the prices of basic items in the country&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You know what is going on in our country&period; It doesn’t even make sense anymore&period; Our naira now is not even worth the paper it is printed on&comma;” the cleric said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While people are hungry&comma; trying to find enough money to buy bread to eat&comma; our bosses are thinking of making the naira more beautiful&comma; even if it can’t buy bread&comma; at least&comma; it will look beautiful&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have problems in the land now&period; Things seem to be getting funnier and funnier&period; If you don’t learn to laugh in Nigeria now&comma; you will develop hypertension&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Reacting&comma; the group called on President Buhari to follow the Naira redesign&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The call was contained in a statement signed by the group&&num;8217&semi;s National Coordinator&comma; Dr Gbenga Olusegun and Director of Women Empowerment&comma; Dr Mrs Zainab Maikanti&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The statement reads&colon; &&num;8220&semi;This landmark step &lpar;Naira redesign&rpar; will no doubt help to reduce inflation&comma; currency counterfeiting and excess cash in the hand of desperate and criminal politicians who had stockpiled cash to rig the 2023 general election&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It would however be noted that on October 26&comma; Godwin Emefiele&comma; governor of the CBN&comma; announced the plan to redesign the naira notes to control the money supply and aid security agencies in tackling illicit financial flow&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The decision of the CBN has elicited reactions as many Nigerians&comma; including Godwin Obaseki&comma; governor of Edo&comma; kicked against the policy&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17221" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Buhari-laughing-1280x720-1-300x169&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&NewLine;Group flays Adeboye &NewLine;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;