*Asks Kanduna agencies to ignore President’s directives
*Directs revenue collection agents to accept N500, N1,000 old notes
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, on Sunday again dared President Muhammadu Buhari on the Federal Government’s new naira policy.
Announcing this latest affront via a tweet on his confirmed twitter handle, @elrufai, on Sunday, the governor twitted: “KADUNA UPDATE: In line with the subsisting order of the Supreme Court, the Kaduna State Government has directed its ministries, departments and agencies to ensure that their collection agents continue to accept payments made in all denominations of the naira, old and new.”
The tweet came after the Kaduna State Government on Sunday directed its agencies to continue accepting all old and new Naira notes for payments in the state.
President Buhari had last week in a nationwide broadcast, announced that only the N200 old notes should continue to be used along with the new notes.
However, in a statement by Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, el-Rufai’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, he stated that the counter instruction was from Governor el-Rufai.
In the terse statement which the governor tweeted, Adekeye said: “In line with the subsisting order of the Supreme Court the Kaduna State Government has directed all its agencies to ensure that their collection agents continue to accept payments in all denominations of the Naira, old or new.”
The statement further said that the “laws of Kaduna State do not allow personnel of government to be involved in the cash collection of revenues.
“The collection agents authorized by the government agencies do offer citizens a route for cash payments and are expected to comply with the subsisting court order.”
El-Rufai has spearheaded a battle against the Federal Government deadline on the deposit of old Naira notes, insisting that the order of the Supreme Court made on February 8 must be complied with.
