The Kaduna State government has told the management of all public hospitals to adhere to the law banning cash payments and accept electronic cash transfers.
The Informant247 gathered that prior to the current national currency swap, the Kaduna State Internal Revenue Service had abolished and prohibited cash payments pursuant to the Kaduna State Tax Codification and Consolidation Law, 2020.
“There is no justification, therefore, for public hospitals to reject electronic cash transfers,’’ the Executive Chairman of KADIRS, Dr Ziad Abubakar, stated on Saturday in Kaduna.
“The currency swap of the Federal Government has brought a lot of challenges to all sectors of the economy and the country at large.
“There are still long queues in bank halls and at Automated Teller Machines as customers wait to get new naira notes.
“For this reason, the most popular option for business transactions remains electronic cash transfer, though this comes with its own peculiar challenge of downtime in networks which delays transactions,’’ he noted.
Dr Abubakar also stated that KADIRS would soon provide more Point of Sale terminals in all public hospitals to ease payment of revenue.
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