Surfing through the communities today,i came across this wonderful community and i decided to join, on seeing the topic my brain started processing all i've experienced in this past few months. Ever since the no cash policy started, it has been from frying pan to fire nothing seems to be working , sales dropped and market isn't moving the way it should it has been struggle unlimited. The government didn't think about the citizens before implenting a rule or before coming into conclusion to change the country's currencies, before a currency can be changed the citizens should be given a clear notice not a month notice all because they wanted to manipulate and execute their evil plans.
Just to have a headup against the opposition party, the present government decided to change the country's currency giving the citizens short notice and before proper preparation can be made, the old currencies were banned and people are forced to transact with the new currencies which wasn't made available. The new currencies are not in circulation and the old ones are banned as legal tender, what could have been a source of comfort turned into my worst nightmare. We decided to switch to online banking, transacting from one bank to another via their mobile apps that also wasn't going smoothly, sending money to someone might take three days before getting into the other person's account. The situation became so fraustrating that to buy petty things needed at home became impossible, you can imagine buying salt worth #70 and you have no cash to pay and the seller didn't have a bank account or doesn't accept transfer.
This is the situatiom i face everyday, to buy things in the market becomes a thug of war because most of these traders do not have bank accounts and due to this, purchasing of some goods isn't possible except you buy in bulk or visit a supermarket where they operate POS machine or possibly take transfer. As if that isn't enough, when it comes to transportation this is the most annoying part of this cashless policy, the drivers aren't taking transfer neither are they using pos machine and there is no physical money to pay for the transport fare and i have to go to work and that became my major concern, there was a day i wanted to go out and i don't have any cash on me. I started going from one pos stand to the other and all i was hearing was no cash until i got to one that says its #250 to #1000, i stood there with my mouth wide open because it came as shock but leaving me with no choice i had to collect it like that inorder to get to where i was going that day. The cost of living is now very high that foodstuffs are very expensive, people cannot eat three square meal anymore because it seems impossible. There isn't money in circulation and if you go to bank to withdraw ,you will queue from morning till evening with no hope of collecting the cash.
Offering cannot be made in religious places anymore because no cash and for the growing churches and mosques, no form of payment because physical money isn't available. The no cash policy had closed up many business and brings fraustration to the people, we have no idea for how this will continue we just had to adjust to the new lifestyle because we have no choice.
Thanks for your time on my blog.