The dollar may crash to N200

Abdulrasheed Bawa, The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has predicted that the dollar might fall to ₦200 after the naira has been redesigned.

Bawa went on to state this in an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) Hausa service, hailing President Muhammadu Buhari approval of the redesigning of the naira.

He further went on to say, “The law says the redesigning of Naira notes should be done every eight years but we spent 20 years without any changes on them. And that resulted to 85 per cent of money are in circulation not in banks, when CBN came up with this redesigning, dollar moved to 880 and later dropped to 680 or thereabouts.”

“So you see with this redesigning dollar may massively fall, who knows probably to ₦200.”

The EFCC chair also said there is no any political motive behind the idea and called on Nigerians to report any person with siphoned monies.

“There is no political motive in this; some people siphoned and hid public funds that is why we want them to bring them out and nobody says they should not bring them, what government says is let them deposit such money in banks.

“We assure Nigerians that we are always ready to receive reports of any person with suspicious hidden money and if investigated to be true, we will give 5 per cent of the money to them,” he added.

(Daily Trust)