{"id":139732,"date":"2022-01-25T20:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=139732"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:14:20","slug":"emefiele-to-nigerians-avoid-loan-sharks-leverage-microfinance-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/emefiele-to-nigerians-avoid-loan-sharks-leverage-microfinance-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Emefiele to Nigerians: Avoid loan sharks, leverage microfinance banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has stated that Nigerians should beware of illegal money lenders known as loan sharks.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated on Tuesday by Emefiele at the end monetary policy committee meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Loan sharks offer loans at extremely high rate returns, strict terms of collection upon failure, and generally operates outside the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/just-in-cbn-mpc-retains-benchmark-interest-rate-at-11-5\/\">CBN<\/a> governor explained that those who go to collect loans from places other than microfinance banks or recognised institutions are at bigger risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThere is no need for you to go to loan sharks for a loan. People normally go to loan sharks because they are desperate and can\u2019t access the bank,\u201d Emefiele said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe found out that those that are vulnerable are households who need money to do their businesses but they can\u2019t access bank finance and as a result go to loan sharks who charge them way above or two times higher than the amount borrowed and expected to pay back in 90 days and if that doesn\u2019t happen, they seize your house or bikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe can only continue to advise that there is no need to go for loan sharks. The central bank has put in place the avenue through which you can raise your finance, like through the target credit facility or the SMEs loan that was set up through our microfinance banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cYou don\u2019t have to owe anybody, just go to the portal and fill the form, send your data, and if it\u2019s correct, you will be able to access loans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said several people have benefited from the microfinance strategy to give out loans at affordable return rates, adding that CBN will go after loan shark perpetrators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWe have a large number of people who have testimonials from the facilities we\u2019ve made available and do not have to owe anybody,\u201d the apex bank governor said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe bank is putting effort to stop loan sharks, and when these people are found, they will be dealt with mercilessly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has stated that Nigerians should beware of illegal money lenders known as loan sharks. 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