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$40b drained from External Reserve in 10 years, says CBN


The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has lamented that about $40 billion was depleted from the nation’s external reserves in 10 years due to the taste for imported goods by Nigerians. To stop bleeding  the external reserve, the CBN has urged Nigerians to begin to process raw materials so as to get more value and earn more foreign exchange. According to the CBN governor Mr Godwin Emefiele, “exported raw materials such as crude, wood, cocoa amongst others whose end products are later imported, are being sold cheaply and bought back at more expensive rates.” He said the level of the external reserve will be
significantly beefed up if fuel which takes up 20 per cent of Nigeria’s import bill is locally produced.

Defending the decision of the CBN to support the real sector, Emefiele said the apex bank “is convinced that the sector has sufficient employment capabilities, high growth potentials, contributes significantly in accretion to foreign reserves, expands the industrial base and diversify the growth potentials of the economy.”

Emefiele said Nigerians must, by now have been tired of hearing people talk about the potentials of Nigeria, adding that now is the time to live that dream. “ We can achieve our goals and give Nigerians the chance to live longer, better and more fulfilled lives,”he said.

To make this possible, the CBN governor appealed “to Nigerians to patronise locally made products to encourage the manufacturers to remain in business, interventions by the bank are centered around agriculture, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and Infrastructure intervention.”

The CBN governor also disclosed that in order to make the real sector attractive to the banking industry, the apex bank has injected over N1.3 trillion into the sector.
Speaking at the annual finance corespondent sand business editors seminar in Ibadan yesterday, Emefiele said the desire to revive and stimulate credit to the real sector was what informed the bank’s efforts to pump such huge amount of financial resources into the real sector.
Represented  by the Deputy Governor, Corporate Services, Adebayo Adelabu, Emefiele noted that by injecting funds and subsidising rates, and through relevant policies, the CBN has assisted in growing the economy and promoting the growth of the different sectors of their economies.

According to Emefiele, the interventions that culminated in the over N1.3 trillion support for the real sector include “the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF),the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS), the Agricultural Credit Support Scheme (ACSS), the N300 billion Real Sector Support Facility (RSSF), the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF), the Small and Medium Enterprises Refinancing and Restructuring Facility (SMERRF), the N75 billion Nigeria Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), the N213 billion Nigeria Electricity Market Stabilisation Fund and only recently, the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme launched by President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The CBN is also supporting the Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM) with N50 billion export refinancing and restructuring facility as well as N500 billion as non-oil export stimulation facility. “If you add all these it is in excess of N1 trillion that have been deliberately injected into the system to ensure that they are fully resuscitated and they become attractive for commercial banks” Emefiele said.

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