They complained that they had lived in darkness for over three months.
Residents of Ebonyi on Tuesday decried the high cost of petrol in the country.
A petty trader, Madam Uloma, also said she wouldn’t accept the old notes, saying, “until I hear from the horse’s mouth, I will not collect the old notes”.
Residents are resorting to paying for purchases through the use of point of sale machines or mobile transfer.
ATM points across the city have been taken over by long queues of people scrambling to get the new notes.
Residents of Abakaliki have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to urgently address the crisis in the petroleum sector and halt the rising petrol price.
People interviewed said that the emptiness of Enugu, irrespective of the bad state of the economy, was not unexpected.
