Mozambique: Chapeiros refuse to accept new banknotes – Notícias

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Mozambique: Chapeiros refuse to accept new banknotes – Notícias

12:35 CAT | 19 Jun 2024

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Some semi-collective passenger transporters and informal vendors are refusing to receive the new metical series coins and notes, in force since last Sunday, alleging that they are fake.

Generally, these are operators who have remained ignorant of the entry into force of the new national currency series, a situation that is generating heated discussions between them and passengers trying to pay their fares.

Sandra Xavier, for example, told our reporter that on Monday she took a “chapa” to work, as usual. “Arriving at the destination, I wanted to pay the fare with a 100-metical note from the new series, but the collector, supported by the driver, refused to accept it, claiming to be unfamiliar with it,” she said.

According to Sandra, the situation embarrassed the other people in the vehicle, so much so that the argument was finally resolved by a passenger who was willing to pay her fare with a ten meticais coin from the old series.

“It was a very embarrassing situation. I felt like I had done something wrong,” she said.

In turn, a man called José Nunes said that he was almost attacked by an egg seller at Waresta market when he tried to pay for a comb of eggs with a new 500-metical note.

The seller refused to accept the note, claiming it was fake and accusing the customer of fraud. “He called his colleagues over to attack me, but the worst was avoided thanks to a man who convinced them that it was one of the new notes in circulation,” he related.

Our interviewees appealed to the Bank of Mozambique, and the authorities in general, to make more effort to disseminate information about the new metical series, so that people of bad faith do not take advantage of a poor level of knowledge to introduce counterfeit notes into the market, at cost to the country’s economy.

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Source: Notícias