The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) this evening assured bank customers in the country that the dollars and pounds in their various accounts are very much safe.

The assurance came in the wake of a rumour making the rounds that the apex bank intends to tamper with the foreign exchange currencies in the accounts of bank customers across the country.

CBN Director of Corporate Communications Ibrahim Mu’azu outrightly dismissed “the malicious rumour that the CBN is planning to convert the Foreign Currency Domiciliary Account Deposits (US Dollars or British Pound Sterling) of customers in Nigerian banks to Naira.”

Mu’azu said in a statement he issued in Abuja: “The CBN wishes to refute this rumour in the strongest possible terms. This story is categorically and completely untrue and has no basis whatsoever in the Bank’s pronouncements or plans. The CBN has never contemplated such an action and has no intention to do so.”

•Photo shows CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele.