The Muslim Rights Concerns (MURIC) has demanded that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) includes Arabic in new Naira notes recently unveiled.
MURIC stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the group’s director, Professor Ishaq Akintola.
The statement partly reads: “The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, announced on October 26 2022, the plan by the CBN to redesign the naira
“MURIC hereby expresses its support for the project with the proviso that all the denominations must contain Arabic inscriptions just as they had been before Arabic Ajami was conspiratorially and unjustly removed from some denominations.”
MURIC insisted that the removal of Arabic Ajami from naira notes in the past provoked Muslims and caused division within the country, adding that only its return to all denominations can heal the wound.
