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Written by Gbola Subair and Adekunle Tayo<\/span> Wednesday, 25 May 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

THE governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has clarified the controversy over the recent policy on lodgment and withdrawal expected to commence in June 2012.<\/p>\n

Mallam Sanusi disclosed this on Tuesday shortly after the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The CBN governor, speaking on the bank\u2019s recent policy on cash lodgement and withdrawal, disclosed that the policy, which is expected to commence in June 2012, had come to stay.<\/p>\n

Stating that the CBN had not put a limit on the amount of money a customer can withdraw or lodge in a bank, Mallam Sanusi said what the policy said was that there would be a cost to the customer who lodges or withdraw more than the specified limit in a day.<\/p>\n

Besides this, Mallam Sanusi said the N150,000 withdrawal or saving limit was just a working document, saying that Nigerians had up to 12 months to discuss it and arrive at a reasonable cash limit.<\/p>\n

Sanusi, disclosing that only eight per cent of bank customers withdraw more than N150,000 daily, said he could not understand the furore generated by the policy when such people made use of credit card, internet and telephone banking when they were abroad.<\/p>\n

The apex bank governor, who said the CBN spent N200 billion to print and\u00a0 burn old naira notes, as the case may be on annual basis, said the new cash withdrawal policy would make the Nigerian economy a cashless one and eliminate money laundering, as much as possible.<\/p>\n

On inflation, the governor noted that the year-on-year inflation rate declined to 11.3 per cent in April 2011 while food inflation also declined to 10.7 per cent in April from 12.2 per cent in March and February 2011 respectively.<\/p>\n

However, Mallam Sanusi disclosed that core inflation of 12.9 per cent in April was slightly higher\u00a0 than the 12.8 per cent\u00a0 in March 2011.<\/p>\n

Following the enhanced liquidity in the banking system occasioned by the use of the AMCON bonds to secure funds and the impact of the new\u00a0 reserve averaging policy, the CBN\u00a0 boss said interbank rate and OBB rates softened with the OBB recording a low 6.90 per cent on May 9, 2011.<\/p>\n

Mallam Sanusi also noted that retail lending remained relatively high with the spread between the maximum lending rate and the consolidated deposit rate widening slightly to 19.64 per cent in April 2011 from\u00a0 19.57 per cent points in March.<\/p>\n

He said the foreign exchange market remained relatively stable\u00a0 owing to a deliberate policy on the part of the CBN\u00a0 to increase supply to the market to maintain the exchange rate within a band of plus or minus three percentage points, complemented by funding from autonomous sources.<\/p>\n

At the wholesale Dutch Auction System (wDAS), Mallam Sanusi said the naira\/dollar exchange rate opened at N152.63\/US$\u00a0 and closed at N154.63\/US$ on May 18, 2011, representing a slight depreciation of 1.38 per cent or N2.11K.<\/p>\n

Mallam Sanusi disclosed that in the light of the state of the economy, it would be prudent to adopt a monetary policy that was consistent with the need to address inflationary expectations associated with excessive liquidity and pressure on foreign exchange market.<\/p>\n

To actualise these objectives, the CBN boss said the members of the committee (9:1) voted in favour of further tightening of the monetary policy by increasing the Cash Reserve Requirement (CRR), from two per cent to four per cent\u00a0 with effect from June 8, 2011 to align with the next reserve averaging\u00a0 maintenance period.<\/p>\n

The CRR is the proportion of bank deposits which must be kept in cash with the apex bank. The CRR is currently two per cent and is usually determined on a simple average of banks\u2019 daily deposit base, according to a new\u00a0 framework issued recently.<\/p>\n

The governor also disclosed that six members voted in favour of 50 basis point increase in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 7.5 per cent to eight per cent, three voted for 25 basis-point increase while\u00a0 one voted for no change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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