BVN Crisis: Go to Your Banks to Fix Your BVN Problems, Not Protest – IPDI Tells Alleged PAP Delegates

By Joseph Bienbo, Warri

Niger Delta advocacy group, the Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, has urged aggrieved delegates of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, to go to their banks to resolve their BVN issues instead of resorting to unnecessary protest, adding that BVN issues had nothing to do with the presidential amnesty office.

The group stressed that no protest can solve the problem of the allegedly affected beneficiaries, insisting that the affected individuals should present themselves for verification, maintaining that he that come for equity must come with clean hands.

“No protest can solve your problem. Go and solve your BVN problems with your banks. Your BVN problems were not created by the amnesty office. It was a bank policy and government directives that every individual in the country should fix their personal BVN number to his or her account. So it has nothing to do with the amnesty office. Again, your accounts were not opened by the amnesty office, you did open your accounts by yourselves. Let the alleged beneficiaries solve their BVN issues with their Banks and go for PAP verification, once you are cleared, the problem solves”, the group stated.

IPDI said the PAP office has shown magnanimity by calling for verification of individuals in the various camps. “Those threatening protests are the alleged camp leaders that were using fake names to get bulk payment fraudulently, no genuine camp is complaining about stipend payments -IPDI stated.

“The PAP office is magnanimous enough to call for verification of individuals in the various camps, with provision of accommodation and transport fairs but the controversial camps with fake names refused to go, to avoid exposing their frauds but decided to call for a protest and makes unnecessary noise for public sympathy,” the group said.

The group questioned the genuineness of some of the alleged beneficiaries.
“These show that the genuineness of the very alleged beneficiaries threatening protests were in serious doubt. The public and NSA should disregard the noise makers and attention seekers looking for public sympathy to continue their evil deeds,” IPDI added.

“The PAP office is magnanimous to show readiness to solve your problems. But the reason you don’t want to go is that you want bulk payment for alleged fake names you have been collecting their money since 2009 and 2010,” the group alleged.