Ink stains on New Naira notes are security features — NSPM boss, Ahmed Halilu.

Ink stains on New Naira notes are security features — NSPM boss, Ahmed Halilu.

The Nigerian Security Printing and Minting (NSPM) has explained that the ink stains from the newly recoloured naira notes are security features that will enable Nigerians to easily identify fake naira note.

Disclosing this in a statement on Friday in response to Nigerians’ concerns on the quality of the newly designed naira notes, the managing director of NSPM, Ahmed Halilu confirmed that the ink-staining naira notes were made of the same materials as the old ones & went through the same printing & finishing processes.

Mr Halilu asserts that the new naira notes ability to leave intaglio ink traces when rubbed on completely white surfaces serves as a security feature that makes it simple to spot counterfeit money.

The second stage of currency printing requires a heavy deposit of special inks with fairly large particles to give a tactile feeling of the portraits as well as other raised prints by way of design,” the NSPM MD said.