FX debt: CBN is owning only five banks – Cardoso

Olayemi Cardoso, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, stated that the foreign exchange debts have been sorted  in all other banks except for five of them.

He made this known on Thursday during an investor meeting facilitated by the Nigerian Exchange Group, which he stated that the reminders of the banks FX would be sorted in the next few days.

Cardoso also stated that, “Basically, what we have done with those is that we have paid as much as we can to the point where we have cleared the backlog of all the banks save five. All the banks’ genuine and verifiable backlogs have been cleared, save five.

We are confident that we will shortly be in a position where the whole issue of forwards would be behind us. I would say in the next few days we should be in a position where the balance of the five would have been put behind us.

I have tried as much as possible to be consistent on this matter. I don’t make promises I don’t fulfil. The last time I spoke on this matter, I was confident that within one month, we would be more or less out of it and I’m saying again that right now, I think in the course of the next few days maybe a week and a half, this should be put behind us.”

The Apex bank Governor also disclosed that, Nigeria had attracted $2bn in foreign huge inflow this year.

According to the National Bureau of  Statistics (NBS), Nigeria recorded a total of $3bn in foreign portfolio inflows in 2023.

Wakadaily learnt that, in early February, Cardoso disclosed that about $2.4bn of the $7bn foreign exchange debts he met when he getin the office were not from from non-existing entities, and requests without import documents among other infractions.

He stressed that, “We discovered that of the roughly $7bn, about $2.4bn had issues. We believed that they had no business being there. The infractions ranged from so many things. For example, not having valid import documents and in some cases entities that did not exist and in some cases, account parties who had asked for foreign exchange and got more than they asked for and some that didn’t even ask for any and got. There were a whole load of infractions there.”

Zainab Odunayo
Zainab Odunayo
Zainab Odunayo is a News Reporter at Wakadaily News, specializing in politics and current affairs. With a strong passion for storytelling and a keen interest in social issues, Zainab brings insightful perspectives to her reporting.

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