A senior official from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) rejected claims that the bank has ever banned crypto, reported local media outlet Today NG.
The CBN official, Adamu Lamtek, reportedly said that the bank protected the banking sector from cryptocurrencies—it didn’t ban crypto trading itself.
The clarification comes more than a month after Nigeria’s central bank told all banks to immediately cancel their services for customers who buy, sell, or trade cryptocurrencies. It isn’t clear what prompted the bank’s decision.
“The CBN did not place restrictions from use of [sic] cryptocurrencies and we are not discouraging people from trading in it,” Lamtek was quoted as saying in Today NG. “What we have just done was to prohibit transactions on cryptocurrencies in the banking sector.”
Lamtek spoke on behalf of the governor of the bank, Godwin Emefiele, and reportedly disclosed this at a recent meeting for journalists held by the bank in the Nigerian city Abuja.
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