 Mewale urged the government to correct the imbalance in the political appointments and marginalisation of the local government in the State Executive Council. Nigeria's financial technology and tech industry has experienced exponential growth in recent years as small people pivot from traditional banking systems to digital services. The sector, which has greatly improved the country's financial inclusion indices, has also generated a lot of interest from financial and market regulators, who are now evaluating existing rules and enacting new laws to accommodate the growing opportunities and threats associated with the fintech sector. Speaking of the event, the CEO and organiser of the event, Jami Haudala, disclosed that the event was designed to channel the interests of industry players within Nigeria's financial ecosystem with a keen focus on the fintech players as they are revolutionising payments and other fintech offerings across the continent. The event is basically targeting and driving financial inclusion across Africa. We believe it is important for us to create platforms like this that provide an opportunity to foster partnership across banks, telcos and of course fintech companies. At the end of the day, we are looking at driving conversations that will define the future of Nigeria's fintech ecosystem and equally stimulate the drive for financial inclusion across Africa. There is need for us to strengthen fraud prevention across the fintech ecosystem. It is very important to ensure that the data of people are much more kept in a much more secure and safe manner. Informs part of the security architecture for fintech, which is part of the conversation at the event today. We believe we are definitely going to drive this as much as we can. I think ultimately the way the world is going, in order to increase efficiency, to increase globalisation, for access to finance, it is important for us to take advantage of these solutions that are available in the market. I think of course there is a need for vetting and that is where regulation comes into place where these new players have been vetted and they are accountable to a regulator and that builds trust and then consumers can understand that they are just as good as the traditional solutions. And for the fintech industry, it is absolutely critical that we solve that problem, making possible for customers across the continent to trade with one another without all the friction that exists today, whether it is in terms of settlement, using foreign currency or in terms of regulation or in terms of just the freedom of flow for information and goods. It is absolutely critical. It is a focus for, I am not sure, not on the interest which was the number of the partners who are here today. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.