The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs in addition to Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has called for to a greater extent than fourth dimension for Nigerians inwards Diaspora to obtain their Bank Verification Number (BVN).
Dabiri-Erewa too urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in addition to Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to set modalities in addition to logistics inwards house to leave of absence inwards easier for Nigerians abroad to obtain it.
“I hereby appeal to CBN to expect into the challenges Nigerians living abroad are facing inwards getting their BVN done in addition to extend the deadline for them to leave of absence the BVN done,’’ she said.
Dabiri-Erewa, inwards a disputation on Tuesday inwards Abuja past times her media aide, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said that the asking for extension of deadline was to preclude forfeiture of their savings.
The presidential aide too pleaded alongside the commercial banks to brand the physical care for easier for their customers living exterior the province to hold out able to run across upwards alongside the novel deadline.
She said that the appeal became imperative inwards persuasion of an interim fellowship of forfeiture granted past times a Federal High Court inwards Abuja on Oct. 17 over the matter.
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja had ordered xix commercial banks to demo crusade inside fourteen days why the balances inwards such accounts should non hold out forfeited.
The courtroom had too directed them to file an affidavit of disclosure earlier the court, stating the names of the accounts equally operated, line organization human relationship numbers in addition to outstanding balances.
She recalled that the Federal Government had on Sept. 28 instituted an activity inwards courtroom for the forfeiture of whatever residual inwards a depository fiscal establishment line organization human relationship without a BVN.
”This is why the Attorney-General of the Federation should intervene inwards this affair to aid Nigerians living abroad who are at disadvantaged past times allowing them to a greater extent than fourth dimension to comply alongside the BVN directive.
“The acquaint practise is that banks solely permit deposits into such accounts. No withdrawal is allowed. Should the Federal Government succeed, the coin is forfeited permanently,” Dabiri-Erewa said.
She said that Nigerians inwards the Diaspora had been remitting billions of U.S. of A. of America dollars dorsum to the province on yearly basis, existence the highest on the continent of Africa.
According to her, this has been contributing to the socioeconomic evolution of the country.
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