The Senate has mandated its Committees on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institution, ICT and Cybercrimes and Capital Market to invite the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele for briefing on the ban of Crypto transactions placed by the apex bank.
This was disclosed by the Senate via its Twitter handle after Thursday’s plenary session.
According to the National Assembly, the Committees are expected to drill Emefiele on the opportunities and threats of Cryptocurrency on the Nigerian economy and give feedback in two weeks.
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It tweeted, ” Senate resolves to mandate the Committees on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, ICT and Cybercrimes, and Capital Market to invite the CBN Governor for briefing on…
“…the opportunities and threats of the Crypto currency on the nation’s economy and security and to report back findings within two weeks.”
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Senate resolves to:
Mandate the Committees on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, ICT and Cybercrimes, and Capital Market to invite the CBN Governor for briefing on…
— The Nigerian Senate (@NGRSenate) February 11, 2021
What you should know
On February 5, 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria has notified Deposit Money Banks, Non-Financial Institutions, other financial institutions against doing business in Crypto and other digital assets, according to Nairametrics.
In a circular dated 5th February 2021 and distributed to regulated financial firms, the apex bank of Africa’s largest economy warned and reminded local financial institutions against having any transactions in crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges.
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In addition, the apex bank instructed the financial institutions to immediately close the accounts of such persons or entities transacting in or operating cryptocurrency exchanges.
The Apex bank further warned the Nigerian Financial Stakeholders that any breach of this directive will attract serious regulatory sanctions.
Why now, when we have important issues like strengthening the Nails as it plummets drastically toward a valley of uncertainty.
Other countries are moving, but we’re on a retrogressive downward plunge.
There are driverless cars now, although not yet in Africa&some banks don’t have anyone in them anymore just robots who have taken over operations from Human beings
Do not delve into what you don’t understand. How can you block the operation of a decentralised network/currency that operates on its own without human interference. For your information it is impossible to block a wallet address of bitcoin. This issue is coming up because you cannot loot bitcoin and this become a concern for you. Please discuss meaningful issues that can drive the economy and help you citizens. You can’t provide jobs and you are trying to stop people from making money through alternative investment like forex and cryptocurrency trading, what a shame!