Dr Oba Otudeko (R), Group Board Chairman, FBN Holdings PLC greeting President Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
has expressed reservations about the closure of the border between neighbouring
Nigeria and Benin by the Nigerian authorities.
He believes this could have a general
effect on the progress being made by the Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) sub regional group towards the achievement of free movement of
goods and services and having a single currency.
This was when an eight-member
delegation from the First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) paid a courtesy call on him at
the Jubilee House in Accra yesterday.
For him, developments such as the closure of the border raise serious concerns that threaten the ECOWAS project.
He said, “There are other considerations that the entire ECOWAS has to look at and examine to find a way so we can live in this region in harmony and allow the ambitions of every country in the sub-region to be fulfilled.”
On his part, the Group Chairman of the
FBN, Dr. Oba Otudeko, commended government for the successful clean-up of the
banking sector in Ghana and for the economic stability Ghana is currently
enjoying.
He pledged his banks commitment to
continue to contribute its quota to the development of the financial sector of
the country.
Other members of the delegation included Mrs. Ibukun Awosika Chairman, First Bank Nigeria Ltd; Mr. UK Eke, MFR, Group Managing Director; Mrs. Debola Osibogun, non-Executive Director, among others.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent
