Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has defied the orders of president Muhammadu Buhari on the naira swap policy and ordered all agencies in the state to accept the old naira note for payment.

The governor gave the directive in an update on his verified twitter page on Sunday.”

The statement reads”In line with the subsisting order of the Supreme Court, the Kaduna State Government has directed its ministries, departments and agencies to ensure that their collection agents continue to accept payments made in all denominations of the naira, old and new.”

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“laws of Kaduna State do not allow personnel of government to be involved in the cash collection of revenues”

“The collection agents authorized by the government agencies do offer citizens a route for cash payments and are expected to comply with the subsisting court order.”

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari in a speech on Feburary 16th , directed the CBN to release the N200 old notes into circulation ,adding that the old N500 and N1000 old notes are longer legal tenders.