Former Minister of Education in Nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili, has described the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ban cryptocurrency in the country as tantamount to a regression into the stone-age policy.
Ezekwesili in her reaction via a Twitter post on Saturday said: “Frankly, CBN, all you needed to do was map all the legitimate risks associated with #cryptocurrency and gather a subset of the super brilliant Nigerian young minds in #FinTech so you listen and learn more. Learning is the greatest asset of the policy-maker. Never late.
“Our country’s DNA for irony is uncanny. At the same moment, as we celebrate one of our own leading a global trade institution, we have a memo from our Central Bank making country appear unprepared to embrace the future.
“Now, whenever I see an egregious regress-into-the-Stone Ages-policy move by @NigeriaGov or its
@cenbank and recall something one had previously said on same issue, only a SMH follows.
“I’ll repost tweets from my September 2020 Keynote speech @BlockchainNG conference.”
“Na waaa.”
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