The Kaduna State government has urged the management of all state public hospitals to abide by the law prohibiting cash payments and start accepting electronic cash transfers.
Recall that before the naira redesign/swap, the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service, KSIRS, had abolished and prohibited cash payments following the Kaduna State Tax Codification and Consolidation Law, 2020.
While reacting to complaints that personnel of certain public hospitals had been insisting on cash payments for services rendered, the Executive Chairman of KADIRS, Dr. Ziad Abubakar, on Saturday, February 4, had said: “There is no justification nor reason, for state public hospitals to reject electronic cash transfers.”
“The naira swap mandate of the Federal Government of Nigeria has brought a lot of challenges both to all sectors of the economy and to the country at large.”
“Long queues are still persistent in bank halls and at Automated Teller Machines as customers wait tirelessly to get new naira notes for commercial use.”
“This is why the most accepted option for business transactions is electronic cash transfer, although it comes with its challenge of downtime in bank networks which leads to delays in transactions,’’ he noted.
Dr. Abubakar additionally stated that KADIRS would soon provide more POS terminals in all the state public hospitals to further ease payments.
