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From Yakubu Busari, Jos
CBN Head office , Abuja
The management of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Plateau State Branch has organized awareness campaign to educate the general public on the use of customers bill of rights use of secret pin numbers in transaction of banking service delivery and viable options on productive enterprises.
The representative of the state branch Mrs Veronica’s Aqua disclosed that the exercise commenced the mobilization of the low income but economically active people towards an increased productivity, creation of employment.
She added the team of the Bank is in Jos, the Plateau State capital for a 2-Day CBN Fair to engage women, youths, entrepreneurs, farmers and financial service providers to interact on ways of actualizing the dreams.
Speaking during the Fair, the Director of Corporation Communication of the CBN, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, said the CBN attaches great importance and commitment to this sensitization programme with the main objective of coming together to create awareness about the CBN activities as it concerns economic development initiatives of the Bank with a view of explaining to customers the opportunities available and how every citizen can take advantage of them.
Represented by the Branch Director of Corporation Communication in Jos, Mrs Aqua , the CBN image maker said the apex bank has various initiatives based on monetary policy, modernization of the payment system, development financing programme, and financial Literacy designed to revamp, reposition and re-engineer vital sectors of the economy.
“Some of these initiatives include Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF), Micro Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSME), Micro Finance Policy, Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS), electronic payment system (alternative payment channels), mobile banking, Rights of consumers of financial services, financial inclusion, Biometric Verification Number (BVN) and pursuit of sound and stable financial system.
“These good initiatives no doubt, are quite capable of repositioning the economy if well understood and the opportunities are adequately tapped into.
“This fair is therefore, planned to mobilize the low income but economically active people, especially, women, youths, entrepreneurs, farmers and financial service providers to come together, interact and energy towards enhancing access to finance, increase productivity, generate employment, create wealth and engender sustainable growth.
“At the end of this 2-Day event, it is hoped that our participants would be in a good position to evaluate and take basic financial decisions that can enrich your entrepreneurial skills.”
She urge Nigerians to fully embrace and key into policies and programme of the Central Bank which are geared towards’ entrenching both micro and macro-economic stability. “Our goal is to stimulate economic development for our people to live a better and more fulfilled,” she concluded
