Civil society groups, among them Public and Private Development
Centre, Enough is Enough Nigeria, FoI Coalition and other interested persons and
in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act 2011,
have written to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) requesting for records
relating to the directive of re-introducing charges on ATM withdrawals in the
Nigerian banking sector and which was made effective from September 01, 2014. A
letter signed by Seember Nyagher, Yemi Ademolekun and Maxwell Kadiri on behalf
of the groups says: According to the directive, the cost of N65 per transaction
would apply to the card holder from the 4th remote-on-us withdrawal in a month.
Considering the need for all banking directives to be made in the national
interests, we write to request for documentation that would enable us properly
assess how this decision to re-introduce charges on ATM withdrawals was arrived
at. They thereafter sought for information to be provided under the FoI Act
relating to the number of ATM machines deployed by individual banks in each
state across Nigeria, location of ATM machines deployed by individual banks in
each state across Nigeria, records showing the daily transaction down time on
ATM machines in each state across Nigeria in the last six months, records of
unfulfilled ATM requests compared to fulfilled ATM requests by individual banks
across Nigeria as well as records indicating how much each bank in Nigeria has
spent to maintain its ATM infrastructure in the last years.
Guardian Newspaper
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