NSPMC Workers’ Committee Defends Board On Staff, Tenure Issues

The Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), representing workers at the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC), has defended recent Board decisions on staff tenures while dismissing an open letter to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor as “false, misleading, and entirely unfounded.”

In a rejoinder signed by JCC president, Suleiman Abdullahi Zubairu and general secretary Abdullahi Musa, the committee responded to a February 12 open letter published in The Nation newspaper alluding to urgent governance and management concerns at the NSPMC, a CBN-owned entity responsible for secure currency and document production.The JCC attributed the publication to “a recently relieved management personnel” seeking to “create unnecessary tension and sow discord” among the Board, management, and staff.

It stated that the purported authors “do not exist in any official records of the NSPMC” and are unknown to the organisation.

As the sole official staff representative body, the JCC emphasised its mandate to handle welfare, policies, and industrial harmony.

“No complaint, petition, or grievance of the nature alleged has at any time been presented to the JCC,” the rejoinder declared.

On tenure issues, the committee confirmed the Board’s actions: ending a contracted personnel’s term and relieving a general manager on probation after evaluating “technical competence and organisational alignment.” These fell “squarely within the governance and oversight responsibilities of the Board,” it added, rejecting any link to the letter’s claims.

The JCC also argued that NSPMC’s specialised security operations require “deep institutional knowledge, operational continuity, confidentiality, and a strong security culture.” It promoted internal merit-based growth and benchmarking over external hires, warning that the latter could disrupt stability.

Urging the CBN Governor and Board to ignore the “diversionary tactics” in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the JCC reaffirmed its commitment to harmony and NSPMC’s strategic role under the CBN.

No independent statement has emerged from the NSPMC or the original letter’s authors.

The episode underscores debates over leadership and merit in Nigeria’s public institutions amid economic reforms.