Many governments and their banks act like this. They don't give any example to be followed, they don't give any incentive to their citizens, they aren't transparent, but the real danger here is Bitcoin and AltCoins. They are already feeling threatened by Bitcoin and the changes it can promote... That is why they spread these notes.
Exactly, so we cannot just conclude on Nigerians alone. Is there really any corrupt country that has not been in this category? Was Venezuela not even worst? At least they were warning their citizens, but not clamping down on them or stopping the operations. In fact, I was in this country last year for some business deals (they have the bucks and the environment is good for some oil and gas deals) and you won't blame a man right?
and I got a hint of some of the locals trying to struggle for living talking about bitcoin and even though they do not know much about what they were saying, the interest really got my attention. From what I could thereafter deduce online, these guys are not really giving their governments any attention with whatever bullshit that is being said by their Central Bank, and they never will. I guess they gave up on their government to make decisions for them a long time ago.