By Kwabia Owusu-Mensah
Kumasi, Feb. 06, GNA – Mr Julian Opuni, the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, has stressed the need to equip the media with appropriate knowledge and skills that will help them to understand the country’s banking system to enable them to provide accurate information to the public.
He said journalists’ deep understanding of issues in the banking sector were critical in strengthening public trust in the sector and the country’s financial system in general.
Mr Opuni was speaking at the opening of a one-day training workshop for some selected senior journalists in the Ashanti region, in Kumasi.
The seminar was organised by Fidelity Bank to equip media practitioners with the requisite knowledge and skills to enhance their understanding in the Ghanaian banking sector to enable them report accurately to help sustain public trust in the sector.
Mr Opuni pointed out that the outbreak of the COVID-19, and the recent banking sector clean-up, brought a lot of shakes, resulting in massive stress in the banking sector.
He noted that, as things were picking up in the country’s financial sector, it was important to provide the media with the appropriate knowledge to enable them to provide accurate information that would help win back the trust and confidence of the public in the banking sector.
Mr Opuni said Fidelity Bank, the largest privately owned indigenous bank in the country, was poised to lead in the training of journalists to enable them to provide accurate and appropriate information to the public.
He said it was important for Ghana to grow its indigenous banks to become multinational giants to support the economic development of the country, adding that, Fidelity Bank would continue to work closely with the media to strengthen the banking sector and promote economic growth.
As part of efforts to support the media, Mr Opuni presented a cheque for an amount of GHS 50,000.00 to support the Press centre project of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in the Ashanti region.
Mr Kofi Adu Domfe, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of GJA, thanked the bank for the support and said the gesture had come at an opportune time.
He said the media would continue to partner the bank to strengthen the capacities of journalists to enable them to report accurately on issues in the banking sector.
GNA
Edited by Christabel Addo