Board Chairman of RIMA Growth Pathway Microfinance Bank, Dr Ipalibo Watson Sogules, has urged secondary school children to inculcate saving habit, saying that they can save even without a job.
Dr Sogules, who was represented by the Director, RIMA Growth Patway Microfinance Bank, Mr Nuira Albert Gbarayorks, stated this recently during the 2019 World Saving Day (WSD) celebrations in Port Harcourt, noted that as children they could save from whatever money made available to them.
Sogules, who spoke on the heels of the focus of this year’s WSD, on children in secondary school, stated that the emphasis on children is to inculcate in them the habit of saving.
“It is believed that if you teach children how to save now, in terms of whatever money that comes to them, they would grow up with those values, and will not depart from it when they grow up”, he said.
Also speaking, the Bank’s Managing Director, Mr Augustine Nwiyordee, explained that the focus on school children was warranted by the knowledge that there was poor saving culture in the society.
“Statistics have it that in this part of the world, we lack saving culture. So, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decided to focus on school children in this year’s World Savings Day, in order to instill the habit of saving in them”, he stated.
According to him, “the good thing about focusing on children is that when they become used to saving, at an old age, they will no longer be under pressure because it would have become part of them.
He stated that for the 2019 WSD, a total number of 60 secondary school children were targeted to be reached in 10 schools based in Port Harcourt North and Port Harcourt South areas, with each school providing 10 students.
He used the opportunity to advice parents to learn to save for themselves and their children.
To the students, he urged them to learn to adhere to what they have been taught about the benefits of savings, noting that the Bank has an outreach purposely to work with them towards developing their saving habits.
Sogbeba Dokubo
