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NAMB Boss Urges Members To Embrace New Products
The President, National
Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB), Mr Valentine Whensu, has urged its members to embrace new products in the sector to help ensure profitability and sustainability of their businesses.
Whensu said this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
He named some of the products to include micro pension, micro health, micro lease, micro franchising and micro housing.
He said that the fact that one is poor does not mean he should not own a house and also when people retire they should be able to fall back to something as savings.
He said,“ there are so many challenges because of the economic down turn such that people ordinarily who are not sick are becoming sick financially and economically
“And again, how do we insure what this small businesses that small and medium enterprises owners are doing and that brings the idea of micro insurance.
“ This people are vulnerable and they need to be taken care of; those are the products that this conference is going to showcase and expose our members to”.
He explained that at the end of the conference the various stakeholders would set target on how to implement the products in the subsector.
He also said that the monitoring and evaluation department of the subsector would follow up to the members to ascertain its level of implementation.