The Deputy Governor of Central Bank, Mr Tunde Lemo has urged all the credit bureau in the country to partner Chams Nigeria plc, an indigenous IT solution firm to develop a robust data bank that will give adequate information about individuals that will access credit in the financial sector.

Speaking at the commissioning of Chamscity in Abuja, he said the only way to grow in Nigeria is to involve people in the economy and banking sector which can only be enabled by the sophisticated IT facilities. He said as the country prepares to unleash the potentials of consumer credit, there is no way it can achieve that without been IT assisted adding that part of the facility been commissioned in the Chamscity will be necessary for achieving the feat. He said, “I’m intrigue with part of the facilities here which include the biometrics where unique identification will be given. This is important especially at this very stage of our national development.”

Mr Lemo said if Nigeria is to achieve its vision of being among the top 20 economies by 2020, it most embrace the IT solution provided by the centre where over 1000 people can be interacting online. In an address, the Managing Director of Chams,Mr Demola Aladekomo said the commissioned chamcity which is equipped with over 1000 computers is not just important to the company but to the country at large.

He explained that presently the facility is the biggest cyber cafe (digital mall) in the world and is positioned to offer cutting- edge services such as large scale identity registration, e-learning, e-banking, e-ticketing, corporate video conferencing, international-based examination etc.

He said, “More important to us is that this facility will give Nigerians the opportunity to be identified and transact business in a large scale. It means that whoever getting up to cyber world or internet from Nigeria especially from chamscity will be uniquely identified. So all the transactions will be monitored and cannot be replicated.”

He added that they are going to open and commission thirty more of Chamscity next year as well deploy ten thousand of their terminals to their partners to complement what they are doing.(by Sunday Williams )