Group trains 1,000 street beggars on mobile banking

Kaduna The Bizi mobile cashless consultants is set to train over 1,000 physically challenged persons in mobile cash transfer to make them bank agents to enable them be useful to the society.
Managing Director/CEO of the company, Aminu Bizi Women Economic Empowerment Summit held in Kaduna yesterday, said his organisation intends to use Kaduna state as a pilot scheme for the project that aimed at taking beggars off the streets.
“Instead of them to be begging, they would be serving as bank agents at designated points.
Instead of begging, they would be rendering services,” he said, while urging state and federal governments to support them in ending begging in Nigeria.
Bizi explained that the Summit, organised by the Kaduna State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, partnered his agency in training 58 youth and physically challenged people on financial inclusion.
“The three-day training in Kaduna on agency banking featured those selected from the 23 LGA.
All the participants are happy and self reliant.
They were trained extensively as we took them for field experience.
We went for practicals to show them how to open accounts for each of the banks we are partnering,” he said.
He said that the agency has pledged to reward those that are hardworking.
“We have pledged that each participant that opens 400 active accounts, will get a brand new android phone.” Bizi, who commended Governor Nasir el-Rufai for his commitment at making the state number one in financial inclusion, describes the training, which was in collaboration with ministry of women affairs and social development, as laudable.
“Kaduna state governor is the best in promoting financial inclusion in Nigeria.
The commissioner for women affairs is the only that empowers women in Nigeria by training women and youth on financial inclusion,” he said.
Reacting to the training, one of the beneficiaries, Linus Isaac said that the training was good and they were exposed to so many things.
“We were taught how to be bank agents and serve as agents in rural areas,” he said.