The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in partnership with Gogetit has commenced training for 23,000 agents who will implement the e-Naira at the rural areas of the 23 Local Government Area of Benue State.
Gogetit Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Orkuma Hembe, said yesterday that they are in Benue to educate people on how they can migrate from physical economy to digital economy.
Hembe said that the e-Naira had come to stay because of the cashless policy as supported by the government and that it was designed in such a way that those in the rural areas and people without android phones can also participate in the new naira regime.
“It is a whole lot of interesting ideas with a lot of possibilities. We are here to educate people, train and teach them on how to utilise and navigate through the e-Naira platform as introduced by the federal republic of Nigeria.
“We intend to train at least 100 people per local government, so, in the 774 local governments across the nation, we will be training at least 100 agents in every local government who will serve as extension more or less of central bank where they will provide basic services to communities, markets localities, provide basic services on how to use the e-Naira and also transact the e-Naira,” he said.
The Gogetit MD/CEO added that the participants include; motorcycle hirers association, agri-produce association of Nigeria, national union of road transport workers amongst other groups.
Hembe maintained that, “We are going to take the message to hinterland so that people can quickly migrate to the e-Naira platform and ease the pain that people face when they go to banks ATM.”
On his part, CBN’s John Odekina, said the apex bank collaboration with Gogetit aimed at making more people adopt the e-Naira platform.
“The e-Naira is of the same value with the paper money. The e-wallet contains how much you want to spend for the week or month. The e-wallet can be used anywhere.
“It’s an app with more possibilities. It has more advantages,” Odekina posited.
