The Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) has stated that the amount of counterfeit forex in circulation dropped from 84,934 items in 2019 to 67,265 items of pretend notes in 2020, representing a 20.80% lower.
The nominal worth of the 84,934 items is N64.71 million, whereas the nominal worth of the 67,265 items is N56.83 million, representing a 12.18% lower in worth.
This disclosure is contained within the forex operations 2020 Annual Report that was simply launched by the apex financial institution and could be seen on its web site.
What the CBN is saying
The report identified that the upper denomination notes just like the N1,000 and N500 constituted the majority of the counterfeited banknotes, placing them at 69.06% and 30.79% respectively of the full counterfeited notes.
The apex financial institution stated that the worldwide normal for the variety of counterfeit per million is 100 including that the ratio of counterfeit notes to quantity of banknotes in circulation was 13 items per million, in comparison with 20 items per million banknotes in 2019.
The CBN additionally famous that it’s collaborating with varied safety companies to maintain efforts geared toward curbing incidents of counterfeiting and sustaining the integrity of the banknotes which can be in circulation throughout the nation.
Regardless of the constraints in forex operation occasioned by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the CBN amongst a number of achievements, commenced the institution of the Forex Lab for banknote high quality evaluation, authentication and unbiased investigations in addition to to analyze suspected instances of counterfeit banknotes.
Bottomline
Though there was a drop within the recurring incidence of pretend banknotes in circulation, the CBN wants to accentuate its efforts to scale back to the barest minimal such instances, in addition to additional strengthen the assorted measures designed by the Financial institution to stop and mitigate the chance of counterfeiting.
The apex financial institution additionally must maintain its publicity marketing campaign, collation of knowledge on counterfeits for analyses and monitoring, in addition to strengthen its collaboration with safety companies to curb the incidences of counterfeiting.
