Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has debunked reports quoting him as saying that Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has been printing money since 2015.

Amaechi said in a statement issued by his Media assistant, Mrs Taiye Elebiyo-Edeni, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, that the news should be disregarded as it was false.

On May 3, a publication stated that the Minister admitted in an interviewed in 2019 that President Muhammadu Buhari had been ordering the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to keep printing money since 2015.

According to Amaechi,  he has never held any position in a financial institution in the country and, therefore, did not qualify as an authority on issues that concern  printing of money into the economy.

He, however,  advised Nigerians who wanted information on printing of money to find out from the appropriate agency, not circulating a false statement to gain cheap publicity.

(NAN)