An official of the Alamant Bureau de Change Association in Kano, Abdulhamid Kabir, said the operators were arrested early Friday.
He said the association had met with officials of the SSS last week on how to ensure that the operators in Kano complied with the official forex rates.
“You know this issue is not affecting only one person, it requires time for us to convince our members to adopt government recognized official rates”, Mr. Kabir said.
“But all of a sudden this morning, the security (agents) raided us, whisking away many of our members”.
A source at the SSS office confirmed the arrest but insisted that those arrested were unlicensed operators who had been trailed for a while.
“I want to assure you that those arrested were touts who sell above official prices”, said the source who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak on the development.
Security agents had last week carried out similar raids on some Bureau De Change operators in Abuja and Lagos.
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