Mr Atedo Peterside, an investment banker and pioneer chief executive officer of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, says Nigerians must be granted free access to loans if financial inclusion is to be deepened in the nation.
Speaking as a guest on Covenant Christian Centre’s flagship programme, The Platform, Mr. Peterside said a large percentage of funds that banks in Nigeria have within their coffers must be made available for lending.
“We have to make sure that all the funds or at least a large percentage of funds that banks and other financial institutions have available are actually available for lending,” Mr. Petersided said.
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The economist said it is sad that a look at the balance sheets of Nigerian banks shows that they have huge sums of funds that are locked up in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
According to Mr Peterside, “these are the types of challenges we are to solve” for the nation to attain financial inclusion.
He further stated that more important than just having money to be lent is the fact that the nation must progressively enable freer access to the funds which will be borrowed by Nigerians.
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