By Bukola Olasanmi
The Arewa Youth Assembly has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately relieve the Director-General of the Department of Security Services (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, of his appointment.
The group made the call at a press conference in Abuja on the need for Nigerians to sustain the new Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) policy and remain focused.
The CBN, under Godwin Emefiele, recently announced its decision to redesign and distribute some denominations of Naira notes.
The CBN said the policy is aimed at fighting banditry and kidnapping for ransom, controlling the amount of money in circulation, fighting inflation and addressing issues of corruption and hoarding of Naira notes by individuals.
Also, to forestall the future hoarding of Naira notes by individuals, the CBN came up with another policy pegging N100,000 and N500,000 as the maximum cash individuals and corporate organizations, respectively, can withdraw weekly.
This, according to the apex bank, will help to checkmate incidents of vote buying, as many politicians have allegedly stockpiled funds they intend to use for this nefarious purpose.
Both chambers of the national assembly have openly called for a reversal of the policy or an extension of the implementation date.
They wondered how a member of the House of Representatives, Gudaje Kazaure, could come out publicly to boast of how he had instructed the DSS boss to detain Emefiele for six hours.