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African Businesses Lose $5bn To Intra-African Trade Bottlenecks Annually

by Kingsley Okoh
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The chief executive officer(CEO), Pan African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), Afreximbank, Mr. Mike Ogbalu, has stated that, African businesses lose over $5 billion every year to charges, payments and other related costs to intra-African trade barriers.

He stated this at the breakfast meeting of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) themed ‘1 year of AfCFTA (Opportunities, challenges and the Nigerian-American partnership)’ in Lagos.

According to him, 80 per cent of payments that are destined for somewhere else on the continent, first of all has to travel somewhere else before getting to its final destination, saying, this is the reason why intra-African trade is still low at 15 to 18 per cent.

He added that Africa trade more with rest of the world than it trade with itself.

In his words: “If payment still needs to fly half way around the world to somewhere else around the globe before coming back to the continent, then we are not going to support intra-African trade.

“Nobody that wants to travel from Lagos to Accra first of all goes to New York or goes to London before coming to Accra. We do not even make calls that way so why should money travel in that direction and then inhibit trade on the continent.”

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“Part of it is payment, information assymetry, dealing with trust issues and therefore someone needs to try to invest to solve some of these challenges,” he stressed.

He said, with PAPSS, a centralised infrastructure able to connect all the countries would guarantee instant payment and settlement transactions.

“PAPSS is a central market infrastructure that supports settlement in a multilateral basis such that all that is settled between the different countries is defined through a common framework across the continent,” he said.

“We have also designed it to be flexible, they can connect to national systems, to regional systems and can connect directly to commercial banks. Is built on a proven technology, it is in instant and in local currency,” he added.

He said, the hunger for third party global currencies is having a destroying effect on African currencies, stating the need for the technology to originate and terminate in local currency.

“We have connected the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and today, live transactions are actually moving between those central banks,” he added.

Also speaking, the former director general, Nigerian Association of Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Mr. John Isemede, commended Afreximbank’s PAPSS, but stated that, Nigeria lacks the structure to work with the platform.

He said agencies with no business background form majority of the parties that were set up to process the facilitation of AfCFTA, saying, this is one of the reasons Nigeria is behind in terms of formulating trade policies.

He said from 1960 till date, Nigeria has signed over 600 agreements, but are not tied to foreign trade policies.

Representing the national president, NACC, Dame Adebola Williams, the deputy president, Thomas Tunbosun, said Nigeria has failed to optimise the opportunities that are available to the nation, adding that, the country has largely underperformed in taking advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

He also added that, after one year of full take-off of AfCFTA, there is a clear need for some sort of review.

“This is why we have facilitated the forum as a key fulfilment of the chamber’s members’ expectations. In doing this, we will continue to broker healthy interactive fora between our members and all relevant facilitating regulatory agencies both governmental and private sector bodies that are capable of providing useful information that would help our members who are already into export,” he added.


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