 The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria, Amban, says it is committed to collaborative efforts for the resolution of the cash scarcity issue. And rising from a press briefing to announce its change of national leadership, the money agents are calling an inclusion of agents' category in the withdrawal limit policy. The day starts with the change of button, as the outgoing president, Victor Olojo, hands over official documents to his successor, Sharafa Din Fassasi. It's my honor for people to present this physical document to you. Amban was built on the foundation of giving everything without expecting anything in return. As the new president hits the ground running, he pledges to do more for the Association by adding 500,000 more jobs in the first quarter of 2024. When we are making this proclamation, we are not just making it. We want to attach the channel of delivery to it. If we are supported today, if all agent locations have access and an ability to register NIN agents, we are ready to create 100 NIN agents per each local government in Nigeria. He takes time to address topical issues affecting the nation's financial inclusion policy. A one account should now carry NIN or BVN. We commend CBM for that policy and we are in total support of that policy. We believe that before now, there is no account without NIN, indirectly or directly, because the federal government has enforced the linkage of SIM card with NIN before now, and there is no account that or wallets that are hoping without unregisterable numbers. That means from the back end, there are a need with those numbers. Almost all accounts have NIN. The challenge that is happening today is that their NIN are not linked to their accounts. Amban explains that the issue of scarcity is not caused by the agents. He hints that Nigerians are not taking money to the banks because of trust issues experienced in the past. We are appealing to CBM to include bank agents as another category, and the volume they should have access to should be minimum of, if we are saying that an agent in a rural community is there to service minimum of 20 to 50 individuals per day. That means they should have access to the cash of 100,000 by the number of individuals. And up to today, a lot of accounts are frozen and we are, so people have lost faith in bringing their money back to the bank. So we are appealing to the central bank of Nigeria as a matter of urgency to advise the banks to unfrozen all accounts that were etheto-locked due to their policies. Yesterday, I went to a bank myself as an agent. I could only access 5,000 Naira. I don't want to mention the name of that bank. I went to another bank, that bank said there was no money. We did the banking, I went to the same, there was no cash there. So this is the kind of experience so many of us are having. In all, the association pledges its commitments to the policies of the regulator, but however advised the NIMC and NEAPs to enhance their capacity and collaborate with payment service agents to expand enrollment access points. Just in the Kadone, plus the Belius Lagos. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.