The National Orientation Agency (NOA), has appealed to the political class to give the Naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) a chance to work.
The Director General of NOA, Dr. Garba Abari, stated this Monday during a media parley to present a report of the agency’s sensitization campaigns on Naira redesign, political and voter education, National population and housing census among others.
“As the CBN continue to grapple with the challenges of the implementation of the policy, we urge political players to give the policy a chance to work,” he said.
According to him, the intention of government in approving the policy is noble but require the support of all citizens to achieve the desired goal.
He said NOA field officers in the 774 Local Council Areas and the 36 states have been mobilised to sensitize Nigerians on the policy.
Speaking on the forthcoming general elections, Abari said the agency is doing its best to ensure that citizens are sensitized to make informed choices in the selection of our leaders, adding that it unveiled a whistleblowing platform that would check vote buying.
He said: “On Voting buying and selling, we unveiled a whistleblowing platform in partnership with other partners to give citizens opportunity to report electoral corruption through the Electoral corruption tracker form.
“The form which has been uploaded on the Corruption Anonymous (CORA) platform enables citizens to take action to stop electoral corruption.
“Additionally, the Agency has carried its sensitization campaign against vote buying and selling to all its platforms on the social media and during engagement with other stakeholders. It has also sought the cooperation of other security agencies including the EFCC, ICPC and the police to take action against those indulging in vote buying and selling.”
He added that 50 jingles were produced in many languages including English, Pidgin English and other languages to mobilise Nigerians to prepare to vote and be voted for.
“The simple message is for citizens to make the effort to register and obtain their Permanent Voter cards (PVC). This helped us to fulfil our set aim of mobilise for voter registration.
“In addition, we joined other stakeholders through Social media discussions, television and radio appearances to disseminate messages that will promote voter registration across the country,” he said.
