Commercial banks should be more competitive

Editor, I am visiting Rwanda with the intention to stay longer as I supervise one of my businesses here.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Editor,

I am visiting Rwanda with the intention to stay longer as I supervise one of my businesses here.

With a great interest in business, last week I had a strong zeal to open up a bank account immediately so that I can start off with a few transactions.

Unfortunately, as I moved from bank to bank, I realised that I lack passport photos.This is one of the requirements for opening an account but again I expected at least one of the banks to have a photo studio or camera nearby.

This is what happens where I come from. All banks are searching far and wide for customers, in that there is an immediate solution to new clients who do not have passport photos.

Surprisingly many banks here just kept on sending me away so that I get photos. It is absurd that they even cannot direct one to a photo studio.

It was not until I visited Zigama Credit and Savings Society in Kimihurura that I got to be valued as client long live Zigama .

Kiyovu