The Southern Nigeria Peoples Mandate has called upon the National Assembly (NASS) to begin impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu Buhari over his alleged refusal to obey the Supreme Court judgment on the Naira redesign.

The group also said the management and heads of all the banks in the country should be prosecuted for conniving to deliberately unleash hardship on Nigerians. In a statement by its President, Augustine Chukwudum, on Friday, sent to POLITICS NIGERIA, the group noted that Buhari’s alleged refusal to obey the apex court judgement was dictatorial and an impeachable offence. “How can Buhari fold his hands and watch innocent Nigerians die of hunger by denying them access to their money in the banks in the name of a cashless policy, naira swap, vote-buying and all sorts of terminologies?

“The banks are also exploiting the situation to fraudulently enrich the PoS operators, who are also working on their behalf, and this act must stop with immediate effect. “Since the apex court’s ruling, these banks have been paying old notes of N500 and N1,000 to their customers, but are also rejecting them when the customers bring them back. This is executive stealing. “We hereby call on Nigerians to signal their representatives in the National Assembly to append their signatures to impeachment proceedings against Buhari because of this evil policy,” the group said.

Ada Peter