I was at a shop the other day to do some shopping, then a customer came as well, he bought few things then went to the cashier to pay, only for the cashier to reject two of his ₦100 notes, and the guy asked the cashier 'shey I dey print money for my house?'.
Meaning: am I running a printing and minting business in my house?
I had to snap the money this man brought, it was so terrible, but I will not blame him because he'll not deliberately destroy the money.
I had another experience on my way home from the office, I boarded a bus from the office to my destination, a passenger gave the conductor money and the conductor gave her a balance of ₦100 note, but the woman rejected it immediately saying 'conductor change this bad money for me o' and the conductor's reply made the whole bus burst into laughter, he said 'madam manage the money o, shebi na ona vote for change and Buhari don change money for ona and ona still dey complain.
The note is not supposed to be a legal tender, because people are rejecting it, and acceptability is a great characteristics of money as a legal tender.
The 100 naira notes is a disgrace to Nigeria and Nigerian as a whole.
It's appearance is so useless that its value too is more useless.
Here in Lagos, you can't eat a meal with ₦100, it's so useless that taking bike from one street to another costs ₦100.
There are two ₦100 notes,
This
And this
The first one was introduced by the last administration, but the later has been in use for s long time now.
But the new and old notes in circulation now is supposed to have been destroyed because of its appearance, very dirty, and hardly will you see anyone that hasn't torn or does not have cello-tape at one place or the other.
Instead of destroying, they are still in circulation. But at parties, one hardly find an old note being sprayed on the dancing floor
The following reasons might be the cause of such, and the banks are mainly behind it all
ways handling the currency
Thanks for your time.
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