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CBN to start printing currency for The Gambia – Emefiele

Chike Olisah by Chike Olisah
June 16, 2021
in Currencies, Markets, Spotlight
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CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele

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The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has indicated that the apex bank might undertake to print legal tender for the Central Bank of Gambia (CBG).

This follows a request by the CBG for a possible partnership with the CBN to address the issue of acute currency shortages amongst other currency challenges in The Gambia.

This was disclosed by Emefiele while receiving a delegation from the Central Bank of Gambia led by its Governor, Mr Buah Saidy, who are on a 2-day official visit, Arise TV reports.

Emefiele, while receiving the delegation, assured that the CBN has an extremely competitive advantage to manage the currency printing job for The Gambia.

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He pointed out that the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc which was established in the early 1960s had been printing currency for the country, adding that the facility has a lot of idle capacity to satisfy the demand of the CBG.

Among other considerations, Saidy informed the CBN governor that it is currently costly and unsustainable for the Gambia to continue to rely on its printer, De La Rue of London, for its currency needs.

He added that the distance coupled with some logistics and resource constraints had partly led to the current situation where the country witnessed a shortage of currency notes with attendant implications for the economy.

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What the CBN Governor is saying about currency printing

Emefiele, in his speech, said, “I note your point on currency management. The Nigerian mint was set up in the early 1960s and we’ve been producing our currency since the early 60s and we have a lot of idle capacity to ensure that instead of you going to Europe or other countries, you will be able to benefit from our ideas.

Our colleagues will take you to the security printing facility. Our colleagues that came in from Liberia two months ago were fascinated by the kind of facilities, we have at our Nigerian security printing and minting facility and I am sure that you will also enjoy them.

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And I am sure they will follow you back to the Gambia to see how they can help you to structure your economic order quantities so we can also be of assistance in printing your currency.

And I can assure you that we can be extremely competitive if only from the standpoint of logistics and freight from Europe but it’s just going to be a few hours from here to the Gambia and the rest of them.”

What the CBG Governor is saying

Saidy, on his part, explained that it costs the bank about £70,000 to lift printed currencies from Sri Lanka to the Gambia.

He said: “We also need assistance in currency management. Right now we have a situation where we are running very low on currency and at some point, I get scared because we cannot at the central bank run out of currency completely as that will be a disaster.

So we want to learn from your estimate. We have a model but we have not looked at it yet – given to us by our printers – De La Rue. How they estimate the currency need of the country on yearly basis.

But I think it has some defects otherwise, the acute shortage we have currently would not have happened.”

Going further, the CBG Governor said, “We placed an order for three years of currency to be printed but again, the contract with De La Rue since independence they have been printing our currency.

Yesterday in my interaction with the Deputy Governor, Mr Kingsley Obiora, we realise that you print your own currency and I asked about security and he assured me that you have top of the line security features.

So this is another area I would want us to exchange ideas and have discussions on how possibly if we decide to go with you we can collaborate with your assistance to be printing our currency.”

What you should know

  • The delegation from the CBG is in the country to collaborate with the CBN on currency printing.
  • They are also in the country to benefit from the CBN’s vast experiences on how it has successfully regulated the financial system and also to seek assistance in the areas of information technology, modernisation, cybersecurity, forex shipping and management, among others.

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Comments 1

  1. Odebunmi says:
    June 17, 2021 at 2:40 pm

    This is a good development, The Mint is capable. of printing for other countries, their products are well secured

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