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Some collapsed banks licensed for political purposes – Toma Imihere

August 2, 2018
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Some of the recently collapsed banks only existed to serve political purposes, Financial Analyst, Toma Imihere has said.

“These banks were given license as political patronage. It was just political patronage,” he stated plainly on Citi TV’s Point of View.

Three of the five banks consolidated under Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited by the Bank of Ghana were found to have obtained their banking licenses by false pretenses.

Read: Merger of 5 banks: Deposits, jobs safe – Bank of Ghana assures

The banks in question are Sovereign Bank, The Beige Bank and Construction Bank, and they were all first given licenses in an election year.

Beige Bank and Construction Bank were each granted provisional licenses in 2016 and launched in 2017.

Sovereign Bank Limited was licensed as a universal bank in January 2016 and began operations in April 2016.

Toma Imihere said it was possible these banks had agreements to fund certain political entities in exchange for the licenses.

“The thing is very simple. A party needs finance and has the ability to influence the giving of the licenses. So what do you do? You give the licenses in exchange for promises to get funding along the line,” he explained.

Read: The 5 CEOs/MDs behind the ‘collapsed’ banks

If the Bank of Ghana had not seen a change in the management following the change in government or the International Monetary Fund had not stepped in, Toma Imihere felt the rot within the sector may have continued.

The other banks merged under the Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited are Royal bank and uniBank.

Making the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday, the Bank of Ghana boss, Dr. Ernest Addison said Consolidated Bank Ghana Limited was assuming “all liabilities of these five banks.”

The Bank of Ghana gave the banks in Ghana until the end of 2018 to raise a GHc400 million new capital requirement or risk being shut down or becoming a microfinance or savings and loans institutions.

Read: Recapitalization wrecks havoc: BoG to shut down 50% of local banks today

Dr. Ernest Addison disclosed that some 15 banks are set to meet the new minimum requirement whilst 19 others were left on unstable footing.

Source: citinewsroom.com

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