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By Kafilat Akinwunmi
As the scarcity of naira notes continue to inflict pain on Nigerians, Saturday Sun sought how the policy has been affecting participants in the National Youth Service Corps. Their responses are published below.
Keruwole Sulaimon
It appears that things have been hectic. Despite the fact that the firm I work for has a staff bus.
Most of the time, I pay for transportation from my house to the junction. I also pay to buy items like groceries. Most of these petty traders dislike the concept of transfer, and it takes a lot of effort to gain their trust. They’ll have to wait for credit notifications before they can sell to you. On days when cash is available, you pay, get your balance, and leave. It’s a little unfair, but I really hope that this policy works out in the end.
Eze Petra Ukamaka
The naira crunch has really affected my everyday life including transportation, feeding and others. My weekly CDS which holds every Thursday is greatly affected as there is no means to transport myself to the Secretariat where it is held. Buying of food stuff and other necessities has really become a problem. Transferring money to the food sellers would have been a great idea but most of the men and women in the market are illiterate people, so, it is a No for them. Even the educated ones among them are scared of being paid with fake transfers. As a corps member, I am left stranded, helpless and serving my father land on an empty stomach.
Alausa Azeezah
As a youth corps member serving my country, the naira crunch has made it difficult to get cash to transport ourselves to our various places of primary assignments, feed and also carry out our daily activities. We also have to rely on POS owners and banks to get cash which is time wasting and expensive, considering our monthly allowance of N33,000. It’s not encouraging at all.
Abdulraheem Opeyemi
The current situation has affected virtually all my daily activities. I find it very difficult to
Transport myself to my place of work as there is no cash, and most tricycles transporters request
cash. I sometimes miss CDS which of course wouldn’t happen if not for the naira scarcity.
Owolabi Damilola
I never expected my service year to be this tough. It’s been a hazard working alongside the
economic hardship the naira crunch has caused. Even banks are not helping matters when it
comes to reaching my place of primary assignments or CDS on time. It once happened that after
waiting for hours on the endless queue, the bank workers said they had closed for the day. I had
to return home to the POS charges I was avoiding.
Okpara Blessing
It’s not been easy getting transported from Agege to my place of primary assignment in Eti-osa 1. It got to a stage that I had to beg a provision store owner to help with a thousand naira, after
which I transferred back her money. If that one thousand naira is exhausted, I won’t be able to attend my place of work because the distance is much.
Luro Fait
It has affected me negatively because I have no access to cash which hinders my going to work or even CDS. I had to resolve to working from home which makes the work more stressful because we have to be hands on.
