New cedi notes were a student's project work in 2011 - Designer

A graphic designer, Holison Adiku has explained that designs of new Ghana cedi notes in denominations of 30, 100 and 200 that were published on social media at the weekend were his school project work in 2011.

Adiku in an interview with Atinka FM’s Kwame Adinkra on Tuesday morning, said the designs were made in 2011 whilst a student at IPMC.

He said he studied graphic and web design at IPMC, an IT training institution in Ghana and last Thursday as he went through his archives, he came across the school project work and decided to publish it on Facebook only to realize later that it had gone viral.

He explained he now works as a professional photographer and that last Thursday, he did a ‘Throw Back Thursday’, since people now know him as a photographer and no more a graphic designer.

The works, he said were posted with the hashtags: #Tbt #Ipmc #Project #work #2011.

Adiku explained that he embedded an inscription explaining the designs were not for use together with his name on the designs and that a careful look at it will reveal that.

When the designs went viral at the weekend, there were some suggestions that the Bank of Ghana was set to release new currency notes in GH¢30, GH¢100 and GH¢200 denominations but the Central Bank on Monday denied the reports and described the notes as fake.